THE SILENT LUNA
She knelt at the small cold hearth with the last of the fire she would allow herself, and she opened the book one final time, meaning to feed it page by page to the flame, and she began to read the names as she tore, because it seemed wrong to burn men without at least reading them first.
And somewhere in the reading, her hands stopped.
She had always read the book the way Caius meant it to be read, down its columns, name beside secret, each entry a private leash from Caius to one frightened soul. A machine for holding individuals. But she was too tired now to read it his way, and in her tiredness she read it wrong, read it sideways, read it as the whole thing at once, and what she saw was n
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