The Golden Circuit
1420, Florence. The air in the workshop tastes of iron and rotting figs. I am Elara, twenty-two, and my hands are stained with the dust of the loom. I want to finish the Golden Circuit, the ceremonial robe for the Doge, to pay my master’s debt and buy my freedom. The Guild watches me with eyes like cold coins, seeing in my skill a threat to their rigid order. The silk whispers. It is my...
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