The Golden Scar

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The Golden Scar

The order slip was yellowed at the edges, the ink smudged where Elias’s thumb had rested too long. It listed the charges: insubordination, failure to neutralize a hostile reflection, and suspicion of treason. The fine for the first offense was twelve months of hard labor. The fine for the second was exile. The third was death, and the cost of his land, the forty acres of dry clay he had bought...

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