Healing with the monster
I took a piece of sharp white chalk we used for marking paper reams and pressed it against the dark, cold stone to open Chapter 170:
They believe that if they break your iron, seize your paper, and search your rooms, they have burned the story to ash. They do not realize that ash is not the end of the fire—it is simply what remains when everything soft has been burned away. You can confiscate a press, but you cannot search a mind; you can ban the paper, but the stone remains. Chapter 170 is written on what they cannot carry away.
Julian slowly reached out and touched the broken iron lever, his face set in a hard, quiet line. Yusuf set his wooden block on the table, picking up a hand-carved
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