Chapter 13 · free to read
Three widows had touched the laundry hems. So I wrote three different lies and gave one to each of them.
The second lie surfaced in eleven hours, in the Inner Bureau's own morning report.
He came out at dawn in a laundry bundle, out through the west gate and back at dusk, exactly as everything else in this story does.
I had assumed a minister. A jealous consort. Somebody the hall already had a stitch on.
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