Chapter 4 · free to read
Neither of them let go of the cloth, and neither of them was folding it any more.
Nine names entered by the temple clerk, and a tenth written in by somebody who did not date it. A name added without a day is a name nobody voted on.
A chit pinned inside the cloth I will be given on the day. Dated for after the rains, when I am not supposed to be looking at chits at all.
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