The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The banquet hall smelled of roasted goose and old stone. We sat in rows of long tables, the candlelight trembling in the drafts that slipped through the high arched windows. I was a clerk. My job was to count the spoons. Not the silver ones, which belonged to the lords, but the pewter ones for the servants. I held them in my hands, feeling the cold weight, the slight warp of the metal. It was a...

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