The Crooked Letter
“Both rolesdemand equal amounts of inspiration andperseverance.’THE BOOK OF TOWERS, EXEGESIS 8:11He crouched by a door, listening to hushed voices he knew he shouldn’t be overhearing. He didn’t want to listen to them, but he couldn’t move away.It had started earlier in the evening, with a schoolyard game. If two people by accident said the same word or phrase simultaneously, the quickest to call ‘Jinx’ earned the right to punish the other. Until the victor said the vanquished’s name in full, the... vanquished was forbidden to speak. Ellis had won the right off Hadrian fair and square. The words they’d said at the same time were ‘without honour’, regarding prophets in their own countries.So he’d sat in silence as Ellis and Seth had talked and laughed around him. They asked him questions and put on a show of forgetfulness when he didn’t answer. He never did. The game was stupid. It was childish and idiotic. He would show them just how pointless it was by sticking to the rules to the bitter end, whenever that would be.MoreLess
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