married off his daughter

boy in a mud hut.”

Yusha stiffened. “I am a dead man, Excellency. I cannot return to the city. I am a beggar. A ghost.”

“Then the ghost shall have a charter,” Julian said, standing up and pulling a heavy parchment from his tunic. “I have signed a decree. All past ‘crimes’ of the physician Yusha are erased. The Great Fire is officially recorded as an continue reading …