Millennial Mage novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Gate of Clerks
The woman with the lantern led us down a stair into a cellar the size of a barn.
It was full of people in gray smocks, asleep on desks and sitting up with candle stubs.
Every one of them had ink on their fingers.
They all turned and looked at me at the same time.
"That's her," whispered someone near the back.
"She's shorter than the story."
"She has a cardigan.
The story said she had a cardigan."
I had walked into a lot of rooms in eleven years, and none of them had ever looked up.
"Hello," I said. "I'm Hana."
"We know," the woman said. "We've known since Harrow."
She said it.
"A rider came through the clerks' quarter two nights ago," she said.
"He said a Dust-rank outsider had read the Hall's lies aloud at Harrow.
We copied it onto slips and put the slips in every ledger house in the city before dawn."
"You did that in a night?"
"It's what we do," she said. "Duplicates."
A man at the next desk held up a small notebook, fat and soft from being carried.
"We keep second books," he said. "Every clerk does.
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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