The Emperorâs Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Author:Brandon Sanderson [Sanderson, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Fantástico
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00
Day Fifty-Nine
SHAI slept poorly that night.
She was certain that her preparations had been thorough. And yet now, she had to wait as if with a noose around her neck. It made her anxious. What if sheâd misread the situation?
She had made her notations in the book intentionally opaque, each of them a subtle indication of just how enormous this project was. The cramped writing, the numerous cross-references, the lists and lists of reminders to herself of things to do⦠Each of these would work together with the thick book as a whole to indicate that her work was mind-breakingly complex.
It was a forgery. One of the most difficult typesâa forgery that did not imitate a specific person or object. This was a forgery of tone.
Stay away, the tone of that book said. You donât want to try to finish this. You want to let Shai continue to do the hard parts, because the work required to do it yourself would be enormous. And⦠if you fail⦠it will be your head on the line.
That book was one of the most subtle forgeries sheâd ever created. Each word in it was true and yet a lie at the same time. Only a master Forger might see through it, might notice how hard she was working to illustrate the danger and difficulty of the project.
How skilled was Fravaâs Forger?
Would Shai be dead before morning?
She didnât sleep. She wanted to and she should have. Waiting out the hours, minutes, and seconds was excruciating. The thought of lying in bed asleep when they came for her⦠that was worse.
Eventually, she got up and retrieved some accounts of Ashravanâs life. The guards playing cards at her table gave her a glance. One even nodded with sympathy at her red eyes and tired posture. âLight too bright?â he asked, gesturing at the lamp.
âNo,â Shai said. âJust a thought in my brain that wonât get out.â
She spent the night in bed pouring herself into Ashravanâs life. Frustrated to be lacking her notes, she got out a fresh sheet and began some new ones sheâd add to her book when it returned. If it did.
She felt that she finally understood why Ashravan had abandoned his youthful optimism. At least, she knew the factors that had combined to lead him down that path. Corruption was part of it, but not the main part. Again, lack of self-confidence contributed, but hadnât been the decisive factor.
No, Ashravanâs downfall had been life itself. Life in the palace, life as part of an empire that clicked along like a clock. Everything worked. Oh, it didnât work as well as it might. But it did work.
Challenging that took effort, and effort was sometimes hard to muster. He had lived a life of leisure. Ashravan hadnât been lazy, but it didnât require laziness to be swept up in the workings of imperial bureaucracyâto tell yourself that next month youâd go and demand that your changes be made. Over time, it had become easier and easier to float along the course of the great river that was the Rose Empire.
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