The Golden Ritual
The ink was warm, not hot, a temperature that sat just below the threshold of pain, like a fever that had not yet broken. You watched the symbol settle into the fiber of the archival paper, a golden spiral that seemed to breathe with a slow, rhythmic pulse, and you wondered if it was a mistake, a chemical anomaly, or the first sign of the thing you had been trying to avoid since you were old...
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