The Golden Cellar
The chisel struck the mortar with a sound like a bone snapping, and Thomas Bradshaw did not flinch. He was thirty years old, a cellar master for the Blackwood estate, and his hands were stained not with dust but with a grey, chalky residue that would not wash out. The smell of the cellar was thick, a mix of wet stone, old iron, and something sweeter, like rotting fruit left in a closed room. He...
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