The Golden Harbor
The feast was not a celebration but a siege, a sprawling, suffocating tableau of roasted swan and spiced wine that smelled of cloves and decay, where the air hung so thick with the smoke of tallow candles that it seemed to have weight, pressing down upon the shoulders of the guests who sat in rows of oak benches that groaned under the collective burden of their presence. Margaret Holloway, a...
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