Conversation

"The sage's library," the woman said, leading me into the room. "This is where he wrote the Treatise on Clouds and Opinion from Beneath the Pines." I nodded. Those were the sage's most famous works.

"And those?" I asked, pointing to an open trunk containing blue-bound paper books.

"Ah! The sage's childhood #exercise books. He copied out all 144 Grand Mysteries before he was 10."

I picked up one. Neatly copied pious words. In the margins, doodles of dragons.
#wss366 #microfiction #prompt