The Novice and the Missing Amulet
Chapter 5 · free to read
It came away in one piece, which she said afterwards was the only lucky thing that happened all week.
Eleven shaved heads in a row. Two of them, side by side, had the same long white hair growing out of the same left eyebrow.
The robes in the chest were the twin of the ones on the drying line, and they had not been worn since the year the country changed its currency.
The confession took nine minutes and contained no crime at all, which is exactly why it had cost forty years.
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