The Golden Greenhouse
The satchel weighed fourteen pounds, a precise burden I had measured against the grain of the oak desk before I ever lifted it. Inside, nested in velvet that had gone thin with use, sat the Golden Greenhouse, a vessel of blown glass so thick it felt less like an object and more like a captured storm. I was Elias, thirty-two, a scribe of the King’s archive, and my hands were slick with the cold...
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