The Wistful Witness
Act I Nasrin Rahimi was a bookkeeper for the Khorasan Silk Consortium, a man of thirty years who held a monopoly on the trade’s ledgers and a quiet fear of the flood that was rising in the cellars. I remember the morning the water touched the bottom shelf, the smell of wet wool and old ink mixing in the air, and I remember the specific, heavy silence that fell when the King’s messenger arrived...
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