The Golden Echoes
The ledger lay open on the oak table, its spine cracked, the pages brittle as dried leaves. Elias Thorne adjusted his spectacles, the cold air of the vault seeping into his joints, and picked up his quill. He was forty years old, a man of precise habits and quiet desperation, and he had three days left on his contract with the Guild of St. Jude. The ink on the page was black, but as his nib...
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