The Golden Song
You count the hours. That is the first thing you do, the only thing that feels real when the silence presses against your eardrums. Fourteen hours of work, twelve hours of waiting. The ledger in your hand is leather-bound, the cover worn soft as skin, the pages brittle with age. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, and you have served the Ministry of Records for twenty years. Your want is...
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