The Golden Farce
The frost had not yet broken, and the air in the carriage tasted of iron and old smoke. You sit upright, your spine a rigid column of bone against the velvet seat, holding the leather-bound volume close to your chest. It is a heavy book, a tome of ornithological studies from the previous century, its pages brittle as dried leaves. Inside, between the plates of extinct species, lies a single,...
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