The Golden Cellar
The trowel in Elias Thorne’s hand was cold, a slab of iron that had not seen the sun since the autumn of 1347, and he held it the way a man holds a bone he has broken and set crooked, knowing it will never heal straight. He was forty years old, a mason with hands that mapped the roughness of limestone like a blind man reading scripture, and he stood in the shadow of the unfinished crypt beneath...
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