PART 05

From hearsay and tales told by the sage; tales from tradesmen and travellers to other villages she had heard how the military men had extorted money from the tradesmen of those villages. she had even heard the same about these men close to her village but she had never actually witnessed one.

But why should she trust them? she reckoned.

‘’They were men of authority but completely untrustworthy,’’ she reckoned

She understood that. The sage was also a man of authority but he was trusted. The village trusted him even though he too had fallen short of God’s glory.