The Golden Mirror
The glass fell in four hundred and twelve distinct shards, a calculation I made later, in the dark, counting the pieces by the sliver of moonlight that cut across the floorboards. The sound was not a crash but a shriek, a high-pitched tear that split the air of the Grand Chamber and silenced the Chancellor’s mid-sentence tirade on the levying of taxes upon the poor. I stood before the shattered...
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