The Golden Downtown
The ink is dry, but the gold is still wet. I can see it catching the light from the window, a faint, oily sheen that does not belong to the quill or the paper, but to my own skin. It starts at the knuckles, creeping up the wrists, a slow tide of amber that I have learned to hide beneath the cuffs of my woolen shirt. For twenty years, I have served the Guild of Scribes in Oakhaven, and in that...
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