Book Description | A thief's tea practises a kind of magic called "forgery," which imperial forces capture and put in a cell in preparation for her execution, but the arbitrators, the emperor's corrupt advisers, offer her an offer for her freedom, to visit a new spirit for the emperor. They give her 100 days to make the soul. She gets the emperor's diary and everything historians have written about it, and Gautona is helped by the only non-corrupt arbitrator in this seemingly impossible task. Together, the two look into the emperor's history, and Gautona learns much about the forgery he prepares as abhorrent art, gaining cautious respect for each other. |