The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

The ink in the pot was gold, but it smelled of rot. Master Elias, a scholar of the university whose hands shook with a tremor that had nothing to do with age, dipped his quill. He was fifty-two, and his fingers looked like the gnarled roots of an apple tree, stiff and dark. Across the table, his son Thomas lay in a bed of straw, his skin mapped with the black spots that marked the Black Death....

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