
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Part 1 by Ted Chiang
LeVar Burton Reads
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The Elder Asan and the Younger Asan
The older Asan gave few details of his life. He mentioned a wife but said it was not time for the younger man to meet her. The two went to a dining room where servants brought chicken stuffed with pistachio nuts, rittors soaked in honey and roast lamb with spiced pomegranates. All I will tell you right now is this. When you go to buy hemp from the market and you are walking along the street of black dogs do not walk along the south side as you usually do. Walk along the north and that will enable me to raise my station. Just do as I say. Go back home now you have rope to make. You will know when
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