The Golden Master
Act I I remember the weight of the silence in the counting house, a heavy, damp thing that settled on the shoulders of the ledger pages before it ever reached my ears, and I know now that the frost which had killed the buds on the lavender hedge three weeks prior was not the only thing that had died in that spring, for the air in the archive smelled of ozone and burnt paper, a scent that clung...
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