The Golden Crossing
The paper is thin, brittle at the edges, smelling of damp wool and iron. You hold it under the flickering gaslight of the sub-basement, the ink smudged where your thumb has pressed too hard. It is an inventory list, a simple column of numbers and names, but in your hands it feels heavier than lead. You are Elias, forty-two years old, and you have been sitting in this dark for three days. The...
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