The Golden Maze
The ink on the parchment did not sit still; it breathed, a slow, viscous pulse that demanded a drop of blood to read its true geometry. I pressed my thumb to the edge of the map, feeling the sharp, familiar sting as the barrier of skin broke, and watched the golden lines shift, coiling around the city of Oria like a living thing. My family’s debt to the Crown was a mountain we could not climb...
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