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The Sparrow's Gambit

The Only Door Called a Kindness

Chapter 53 · for subscribers

A plate, a basket of rite charcoal and a banded stick for the timing. I have been handed that stick three times in nine days and I have talked about nothing else in front of every official in the empire, and they have simply taken it out of a stone room and put it under a bath house. Hot wet air and eleven girls and a door that shuts because a girl is undressed behind it. Nobody would even call it a room they sealed.

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