The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

The kilns of the Basque coast burned with a hunger that outpaced the coal, their orange glow bleeding into the fog that rolled off the sea. Francisco Molina stood in the shadow of the stack, his hands trembling not from the cold but from the weight of the seal box in his satchel, the lid empty where the master’s signet had once been. He was the inquisitor of the lower quarter, a man whose duty...

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