The Golden Farce
You are mistaken about the date. The ink is dry, but the seal is wrong. You have counted the grain sacks, but not the years. The smell of the Hall of Whispers was not of dust, as one might expect of an archive, but of wet wool and old iron, a metallic tang that coated the back of Thị Thao’s throat. She stood before the Royal Censor, whose face was a mask of bureaucratic calm, and watched him...
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