A History Lesson: Excerpt from a Memoir

Over supper, the memoirist asked Brencis why he and his boyars were the only vrakhiri common folk knew by name.

The knyaz answered by naming Methuselah, Noah and Adam, asking what the great men had in common — and suggested the answer was their thousand-year lifespans.

There his words ended, leaving the writer to wonder whether the hint could be true.

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