It had taken me weeks, but I finally made it into the Leader’s
office. He didn’t look up, as he studied an old tome on a small stand.
“Speak.” he said without looking up.
“O Grand Leader, who-“
“Out with it.”
It took me a moment to regroup.
“I… My wife has been banished from the Family, and I was-“
“Why was she banished?”
“She… She was very sick, she didn’t mean what she said-“
He looked at me for the first time. I saw no sympathy, no
give.
My story ended with the sound of a book slamming shut.
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