The Golden Crossing
The parchment was wet, not with sweat, but with a cold, viscous fluid that smelled of wet wool and old pennies, and it was spreading upward from the bottom edge against the pull of gravity. I wiped my thumb across the line of ink I had just drawn, the survey boundary for the North Vault, and the smudge did not spread; it retreated, as if the paper were repelling the very idea of my hand. It was...
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