The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

The letter lay open on the stone table, the ink still wet and smelling of iron and vinegar. Brother Thomas read it three times, his fingers trembling slightly against the rough parchment. It was a simple list, really: a ledger of debts owed to the Monastery of St. Jude, itemized with the cold precision of a butcher’s scale. The Abbot had summoned him to the scriptorium, a room that smelled of...

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