The Golden Master
The ingot is warm. That is the first thing you notice, the residual heat of the furnace still trapped in the dense, yellow metal, seeping into the palms of your hands as you hold it over the velvet pad. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, a senior auditor for the Royal Mint, and you have spent the last six hours in a room that smells of ozone and old dust, waiting for the metal to cool...
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