The man took the offering,... «Tiger's Trek»
Black-Swan8 июля 2026The man took the offering, jiggling the box slightly, as if to show all in the schoolhouse how little his large family had contributed, then smiled at his family piously and extended a trite blessing before moving on.
It was that day that Zakhar told his family he wasn’t going to be a farmer.
He was leaving them to study to be a priest.
It wasn’t that he was impressed with the man or his calling.
No. Zakhar was simply determined to never be hungry again.
The idea that he could enter any town and expect the people to hand over food and money to earn his nod of approval was almost intoxicating to him.4
