Chapter 15 · free to read
I did not loop once. Not in the crawlspace, not in the dark, and not when the roof came down on the east end of it.
He came in after us for the confession. Then the roof gave, and there were two of us under it.
We came out on the river at dawn with the confession in a satchel, four hours before the moon was full.
A lie burns it warm. I had spent eleven days learning that, and on the last night of the Duke's wager I made the whole hall watch it not happen.
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