The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

The scale on the table weighed exactly four hundred and twelve grams, a number Elias Thorne had memorized with the same precision he once applied to load-bearing calculations for suspension bridges. He sat in the federal hearing room, the fluorescent lights humming a flat, insect-like note that seemed to vibrate in his molars, and watched the judge, a man named Arthur Penhaligon, adjust his...

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