The Golden Echoes
The brass key is cold in your palm, its teeth worn smooth by decades of thumbs that were not yours, and the weight of it anchors you to the sterile, humming reality of the Grand Palace’s east corridor. You are Elias, twelve years old, a page whose uniform is a size too large, and you want the Senior Steward’s chair with a hunger that feels like a physical ache in your stomach, a need to prove...
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