The Golden Ritual
Act I Luce Gaspard’s hands trembled as he held the fractured gold signet ring over the heat lamp, the metal glowing a dull, angry orange. He was thirty-two, an archivist by trade, though tonight he was a jeweler, working in the cramped quarters of the seed-library night desk where the air smelled of ozone and wet cypress knees. The ring was his father’s, a piece of heirloom brass that had been...
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