The Golden Myth

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The Golden Myth

You count the vials. One, two, three, forty. The glass is cold against your fingers, slick with the condensation of the cellar. You are Elias, twelve years old, and your hands smell of sulfur and dried lavender. The Royal Apothecary is a place of ledgers and locks, of dust motes drifting in shafts of grey light that never quite reach the floor. You are a scribe, a junior apprentice, tasked with...

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