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Book Information:
Genre: Fantasy
Author: Sean Russell
Name: The Initiate Brother
Series: Book one of a Duology
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The Initiate Brother

By Sean Russell




The practice of condemning messengers, the Supreme Master thought, had not developed without reason. The old
man looked down at the scroll he had received from the Floating City that very morning and he shook his head. A
lifetime of dedication and effort and still he received messages like this. It seemed a great injustice.

Brother Hutto, the Primate of the Floating City, wrote that Botahist Brothers were being accosted on their travels by
criminals and ruffians: accosted by the people of the Empire!

The Supreme Master slowly began to roll the mulberry paper scroll. The attacks were not the true problem—one would
have to search a lifetime to find someone more able to defend himself than a Brother of the Faith—it was what these
attacks said about the situation in the Empire and the attitude of the new Emperor. This was the Supreme Master’s real
concern.

He set the scroll on the corner of his writing table. Brother Hutto had written that several of these robbers had been
injured recently, but this did not seem to be a deterrent. If anything, the attacks were increasing. The old monk reached
for the scroll as if to read it again, but stopped himself. There could be no doubt of what it said.

If only the Emperor would turn his attention to the roads! That would be an indication that this new dynasty was
capable of something more than ambition.

The Supreme Master took a deep calming breath. Emperors, he reminded himself, come and go; the Faith