Ascendance of a Bookworm Series - Kazuki Miya
by Salmalin
My hands clench on my lap, eyes falling beneath the gap in the screen. Beneath, embroidered cloth slippers tell me everything one could want to know of the man's rank. There is even a crest, though I know so little of noble families that I could not hope to recognize it. The thread, however, speaks volumes.
Gold thread. Rich, ocher silk fabric backing. The complex swirls and circles mask layer after layer of those strange designs Lady Rozemyne draws on request for the head priest. Each obfuscation tells a story of its own—of time spent on cloth slippers instead of hard labor. Instead of business. Instead of familial duties. Instead of the day to day drudgery of making one's life. Yet it is the thread itself—the shine of it, the smooth lay of it, the clean, consistent, even twist of fiber and wire—that speaks the loudest.
Archnoble.
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