The Golden Farce
The magistrate’s gavel struck the oak block with a sound like a bone snapping, and I watched the shockwave ripple through the air before it reached my face, where it registered not as noise but as a sudden, violent heat in the jaw. I am Silas Vane, a warden of the city’s lower precincts, and I stood there in the center of the Hall of Echoes, my hands bound by chains that hummed with a low,...
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