The Golden Cellar
The light in the cellar was the color of old blood, a thick, stagnant red that seemed to seep from the very stones rather than reflect the lantern’s flame. Mehdi Kian, a border guard of thirty-two years who had served the state with the rigid precision of a man securing his pension, stood at the edge of the excavation pit, his hands trembling not from the cold but from the weight of the secret...
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