The Golden Echoes

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The Golden Echoes

The iron pickaxe head was cold against my palm, slick with a sweat that smelled of rust and old fear, and I could feel the vibration of the rock through the handle, a low thrum that matched the frantic hammering of my own heart. I was fourteen years old, and the air in the deep shaft of the Blackwood Mine tasted of chalk dust and copper, a metallic tang that coated my tongue and made my teeth...

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