The Golden Mirror
The count was wrong. Inspector Elias Thorne had tallied the ledgers for the Obsidian Archive for thirty-one years, a tenure measured not in days but in the heavy, damp weight of the paper itself, and yet the final column of the quarterly audit did not sum to the expected total; it was short by four thousand, seven hundred, and twelve pounds, a deficit that felt less like a number and more like...
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