The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

Who holds the truth when the mouth that speaks it is sealed by a hand that has never known hunger? Antonio Esposito asked the question of the roasted boar, watching the High Inquisitor’s retinue carve the fat from the bone with the casual precision of men who had never had to beg for a scrap. He was twelve, the son of the town’s disgraced scribe, and his stomach was a hollow drum beating...

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