The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The banquet hall smelled of roasted lamb and wet wool. It was a thick, suffocating scent, the kind that clings to the tongue and lingers long after the meat has been scraped from the bone. I sat at the high table, my fingers stained with the juice of a pomegranate, watching the guests laugh. They were loud. They were bright. They were everything I was not, or rather, everything I had chosen to...

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