The Golden Cellar

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The Golden Cellar

My hands were black with the wine-soaked dust when the summons came, a scrap of parchment pinned to the cellar door by a rusted nail. I was forty-two, and my lungs burned with a cough that tasted of copper and old rot. I needed the pension. I needed it before the winter set in, before the Duke’s estate could afford to let me die in a ditch. The message was brief, signed with the Duke’s seal, a...

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