The Golden Visit
The coin was warm in my palm, the only thing that had not yet turned to ash, though the fog outside the glass doors of the Imperial Archive was already swallowing the streetlamps, a thick, golden smog that smelled of burnt sugar and old paper. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, a clerk of the fourth rank, and I have spent twenty years cataloguing the dead so that the living might remember...
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