The first sign was not loud.
It was missing grain.
At dawn, the storehouse doors stood open-but nothing was broken, nothing forced. Inside, one section of carefully measured sacks had been disturbed.
Not emptied.
Shifted.
Recounted.
Wrong.
The overseer frowned as he checked the tallies again. "This doesn't match," he muttered.
By midmorning
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