The Golden Echoes

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The Golden Echoes

The stone was slick under my fingers, cold and gritty, like wet slate. I gripped the lintel of the Blackwood Gate, my knuckles white, feeling the arrhythmia stutter in my chest like a clock missing a beat. Fifty-four years old, and my heart was a rusted hinge. The mist coiled around the archway, thick and gray, smelling of wet wool and old earth. It was not merely fog. It was a wall. I needed...

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