The Wistful Asylum

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Who was I, really, if not the keeper of their lies? I sat in the scriptorium, the air thick with the dust of dried reeds and old ink, my quill hovering over the ledger of grain taxes. The silence of the room was not empty; it was heavy, a physical weight pressing against my temples, the same silence that had greeted my petition for Karim for three years. I was Zaynab Rustom, a scribe of the...

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