The Golden Cellar
The ink was black, but the gold was a living thing. It whispered against the vellum, a sound like dry leaves skittering over stone, audible only to the one who bled. I was twelve years old, my hand trembling over the *Codex Aureus* in the scriptorium of the Abbey of St. Jude. The air smelled of lamp oil and old parchment, a scent that had settled into the fibers of my wool tunic until I could...
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