Chapter 12 · free to read
A blank tag on a fixed bracket. Somebody is being kept in reserve.
Nine days since the fire. If I hide, the bracket forfeits and I lose the only door into his compound. So I walk in the front, and I smile, and I let him watch me do it.
Not a cell. A workshop.
He could not prove she was a fraud. So he built her a brother who would say it for him, in front of the whole arena, with a sword.
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