The Golden Harbor
The feast was a wound in the dark. Candles. Hundreds. They burned low and fat, dripping wax like slow tears onto the tablecloth. The air smelled of roast goose and stale sweat and the sharp, metallic tang of fear. In the center of the long oak table sat the mark. It was a circle of gold leaf, no larger than a coin. It pulsed. Not with light. With weight. Thomas was seven. He sat at the end of...
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