Crossdressing For The Emperor
he said, "or hear anything — a young woman, answers to Liora, the emperor has a personal interest in her return — there is a reward for information that leads to her."
He said "the emperor" like people say worn-out phrases, without emphasis, like a smooth stone that has lost its edges. It told me he had said those words many times and attached no particular feeling to them.
"I'll keep my eyes open," I said.
He looked at me one more time. Then he turned, and the men with him turned, and they moved back toward the temple entrance with the same quiet, organized ease with which they had entered. Then they were gone, the doors settled behind them, and the temple's silence flooded back in to fill
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