The Golden Circuit
The red ink bleeds into the parchment, a jagged wound across the line where you had written the final balance. You hold the quill, the nib dry, the wood splintered under your thumb. It is a small thing, this scratch, but it cuts deep. You are Elias, forty-two, and for twenty years you have been the hand of Oakhaven, the scribe who counts the coin and signs the truth. You want only to send this...
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