The Golden Crossing

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The ink in the well was not black but a viscous, liquid gold, and it smelled of ozone and burnt copper. You stood before the high desk of the Duke of Ashworth, your spine rigid with the effort of keeping your throat from closing, for the air in the court had thickened into a suspended haze that clung to your skin like wet wool. You were Elias Vane, a clerk of twenty years, and you wanted only a...

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