The Golden Visit
The hall smelled of roasting lamb and damp wool. It was a thick, cloying scent that stuck to the back of the throat. We sat on benches of rough-hewn oak. The stone floor was cold under my feet. I wore a tunic of undyed linen. It was thin. It offered no comfort against the draft that sneaked through the cracks in the walls. I was a scholar. Or so they said. I carried a book bound in cracked...
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