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Puabi stole secret knowledge. Her punishment? Banishment from the city.
She walked out. Then she slipped on an ensorcelled jewel that hid her from sight and walked back in again. The rest of the knowledge still called to her, begging to be learned and mastered.
Puabi hides in the houses that store the city's dead, sneaking out at night to read the priests' hidden scrolls. Her collection of ensorcelled jewels grows. No priest's skill matches hers.
But magic rages like oil fire. Without control it grows too hot too fast. And scars all it touches.
"Oil Fire", a short story set in the Goddess Bereft World.
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Kate MacLeod
Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.
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OIL FIRE
If I had been a child of one of the twelve great Houses, my crime of stealing scrolls from the priests' library would have been punishable by death. My body would have been left atop my House’s tower until my flesh filled the bellies of the sentinel birds, then my picked-clean bones placed in the city walls so that in death I would still serve a purpose, warding the city from the demonic vapors that swept down from the mountains at night and filled the river valley all around Ummur’s walls. Not even the humblest goatherd dared remain outside the city’s walls past moonrise.
But I was not a child of a great House. My death would serve no purpose, but I could not be tolerated to live among the chosen. So I was banished. I walked down the dusty road south of Ummur, the priests watching every step I took until the road dipped out of sight.
But I was back within the walls well before moonrise, using the knowledge I had stolen
from the priests to hide from the guards’ sight. There was more in their library I needed to know before I could leave Ummur.
As I skirted around the marketplace filled with farmers and artisans setting out their goods I wondered if that was still true. There were a few scrolls left which I had never read, in the library off limits to all but the highest ranking priests, but I would have to face great risk to get to them. Perhaps it was time to move on, to follow my clues to the city of the goddess far to the north. I was certain I could find it, if only I had the courage to take the first step outside the walls
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