The Golden Visit
The letter was damp, the ink blurring into a brown smear that looked like a bruise. Elias held it in the library, the air thick with the scent of rotting paper and dried lavender. He was twelve, small for his age, with hands that trembled not from cold but from the weight of what the paper said. His father, Arthur, had not written in three years. The house groaned, a low, tectonic shift that...
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