Chapter 9 · free to read
He knocked. He waited to be let in. He was the only thing in ten days that had behaved like a person.
That chain snapped in the archway on day nine. I picked it up out of the mud myself and it is in the breast pocket of my jacket. There is no unbroken copy of it anywhere in the world.
Every true thing we said about it was a cut, and it grew from every cut. We named it accurately, out loud, and it put a spire down in the middle of Main Street. That was the day the rule finished teaching itself to us.
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