The Golden Ritual
The parchment was thin, brittle as a winter leaf, and I held it up to the single tallow candle in the scriptorium. The ink was already drying, a dark, jagged scrawl that looked less like a transcription and more like a wound. I was Elias, forty-two years old, and the Head Archivist of St. Jude’s. My hands shook. They had been shaking since the first frost, but tonight the tremor was violent, a...
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