The Golden Farce
The ink is warm. "You are sure of this, Scribe?" The High Council’s voice was not loud, but it carried the weight of the iron gates behind him. I looked at the parchment. The gold letters were fading, not into white, but into a heat that pricked my skin like a coal pressed against the palm. I was Fadumo Hersi. I was thirty-four. I was a scribe who had owed rent to the temple granary for six...
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