"The Garden (A Fantasy Short Story)"

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Councillor to a tyrant of a provincial governor, Yuchun Yiyuan finds solace in a secret garden hidden from the rest of the palace, and the world. Not only solace does he find, but an unusual friend to offer him sage counsel to help save him from the governor's unpredictable wrath. Guilt nags at the councillor as he advises the governor on the minutiaie of a civil war, however, and he feels his hands are stained red with the blood of his own countrymen ... He knows he cannot keep it up much longer. Something has to give. His friend has a radical solution. Perhaps too radical ...