2023/013: Petty Treasons — Victoria Goddard

2023/013: Petty Treasons — Victoria Goddard

in a tiny, unbelievable gift, treason according to the absolute letter of the law, Cliopher sayo Mdang would look up after his obeisance and meet my eyes and smile and say, “Good morning, my lord.” One moment each morning in which you spoke as a person to another person, and was greeted as a person by another person: on such did the entire machinery of apotheosis stutter to a halt. [loc. 393]

A novella set three years after the Emperor's awakening, and well before the events of The Hands of the Emperor, covering the first days of Cliopher Mdang's employment as secretary to the Last Emperor -- from whose point(s) of view this tale is told -- and the effect that his presence has on His Radiancy, and indeed on the world.

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