The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

Bernardino Leal, forty-two, the Head Archivist of the Monastery of St. Jude, held the stylus with a grip that had long since fused to the bone. The light in the scriptorium was low, slanting through the high windows at an angle that turned the dust motes into slow, gray snow. I wanted only to finish the Book of Hours before the tremor in my left hand made the lines waver, a flaw that would mark...

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