The Golden Crossing
The ink is cold, Father. It tastes of iron and old rain." "Then you shall drink it, Elias. As the boy must drink his death." I did not answer. I could not. The stone vault of the Abbey of St. Jude smelled of damp limestone and the sharp, metallic tang of the *Sanguis Veritatis* vial in my hand. I am forty-two years old. My hands, once steady enough to trace the finest hairline of a capital...
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