The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The charcoal ground itself into a black dust that smelled of the wet earth beneath the stone, a scent that clung to Sagal Warsame’s fingers as he mixed the pigment with the thick, coppery blood of the goat he had slaughtered behind the wind turbines. He was twelve, a novice in the scriptorium of the old stone town, and his hands were already stained to the wrist, a permanent map of his labor...

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