The Golden Greenhouse

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The candle burned down to a stub, its wax pooling in a heavy, amber ring that smelled of rendered tallow and old dust, and I counted the hours until the Curator’s shift ended, knowing that every minute I spent in the subterranean silence of the Imperial Library was a minute stolen from the rot that was already eating my marrow. I am forty-two years old, an archivist of the fourth rank, a man...

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