The Distant Journey
The white crane stood on the balcony railing, its neck rigid as a wire, watching Ashok Mehta. He was thirty-two, a captain of the royal guard, and his hands were trembling from the cold damp of the Kerala backwaters. The air smelled of thawing earth and diesel, a physical weight that pressed against his lungs. He held the executioner’s axe, the bronze head dull and heavy. Lord Vane, or rather...
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