The Faded Root
Act I The light in the medina was always too yellow for the work. Ibrahim Salem knew this because the clay rejected it, turning a shade of umber that looked like dried blood rather than the pale, honest beige of the riverbank. He was thirty-two, a master potter, and he was currently bleeding onto the base of the Faded Root vase, his thumb pricked by the sharp edge of a broken shard. The King’s...
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