The Courier and the Condemned Scholar
Chapter 7 · free to read
Old Ru's warning had arrived a full day ahead of the blades. It did not help. Warnings do not travel any faster than the thing they warn about.
He had spent a year copying other men's arguments. He had also spent six days watching an old physician measure out caustics, because he had nothing else to look at.
Three of them had come up that track. Three of them had stood aside while two exhausted travellers walked out of a burning doorway.
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