The Golden Crossing

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The nib of the quill scratched against the vellum, a sound like a mouse gnawing on a bone, and I watched the black ink bleed into the fibers, refusing to dry. It did not settle. Instead, the letters writhed, rearranging themselves into a sentence that had not been written there before: *Lord Vane will cease to be on the fourteenth of November.* I was twelve years old, a scribe in the Imperial...

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