The Golden Cellar
The bread was stale. You noticed this first, the hard crust of it, before you noticed the key, before you noticed that Master Thorne was gone. It was a Tuesday, the air in the High Library tasting of dust and old vellum, and you stood in the doorway of his office, holding a ledger that you had spent three nights copying by candlelight. You were thirty-two, a man whose hands were perpetually...
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