His contract with Plurality stipulates that – barring violation of said contract on his part – he cannot be subjected to undue duress, physical pain, torture, etcetera. This should be enough for him to be released and relocated elsewhere in the French Empire or, given the circumstances, a similar epoch. But his contract also stipulates that he cannot disrupt the integrity of an Earth model by revealing certain truths to the actors who occupy it, which his paintings most certainly have. Because of this, a man with two different-coloured eyes arrives one day and asks him to hold a small black
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