Millennial Mage novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Four Hundred Names
Teo stepped up beside me and held out his hand for the paper.
The square could not believe what it saw: the wanted man, walking up to the Examiner of the Hall, in the sun, with nothing on his face but his own name.
Vesk gave him the receipt with a gracious little bow.
"Chancellor," I said. "Will you ask Captain Kell to sign his name beside it?"
The chancellor handed Teo a pen and a clean page.
Teo wrote it in one quick stroke, a flat T with a hard cross.
The chancellor held the two sheets side by side and lifted them to the light.
"Look at the T," I said, to the front of the crowd. "Mine is a plain man's.
The Hall's has a curl at the foot, like the same hand that signed every other page of that ledger.
I don't need a thumb to see that.
Neither do you."
A soldier near the front shouted, "It's got a tail!"
"It has a tail!" someone else yelled.
A great ripple of laughter and anger went across the square, and Vesk's smile slipped.
He folded his hands.
"A scribble," he said. "Any hand can curl."
"Then let the Hall's hand sign with it," said the chancellor. "Here."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Millennial Mage are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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