The Golden Farce
You hold the brooch. It is heavy in your palm, cold as river stone. The gold is tarnished, dark with age. It was your father’s. Now it is yours. The town of Oakhaven sleeps under a grey sky. The rain has stopped. The air smells of wet wool and woodsmoke. You are a scholar. You study history. You write books. You are respected. But you are also sick. The cough is deep in your chest. It rattles...
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