The Golden Crossing

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The mercury in the thermometer did not rise; it bloomed. A slow, viscous unfurling of red glass, like a petal opening in the dark, marking the heat that was not of the air but of the bone. You sat in the center of the grand hall, a room designed for the exchange of wool and the weighing of souls, where the chandeliers hung like frozen webs of crystal. The air tasted of copper and old paper....

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