The Golden Echoes
The ledger weighed four pounds. Elias Thorne counted the pages, his fingers dry and rough, under the amber light of the chandeliers. Twenty years of service. Twenty years of silence. He stood at the edge of the High Court’s banquet hall, a vial of golden sap clutched in his left hand. The liquid inside pulsed, a slow, rhythmic thud against the glass. It was warm. Warmer than it had been an hour...
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