The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

Brother Thomas walked the long corridor of the Abbey of St. Jude, his sandals slapping against the cold stone. The air smelled of damp wool and old incense, a scent that had soaked into his bones over twenty years of silence. He stopped before the altar, a slab of marble veined with gold leaf that had begun to crack. The gold was flaking, shedding tiny, bright fragments onto the floor like dead...

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