The Golden Cellar

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The Golden Cellar

The honey was thick and cold on my tongue. It tasted of iron and burnt sugar. I spat it into the dust, the droplet sizzling faintly against the stone floor of the Duke’s cellar. I am Elara, thirty-two, and for ten years I have kept the vats in the deep places of Ashworth Castle. My sister, Margaret, is wasting away in the tower above. She coughs blood into her handkerchief, a red stain on white...

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