Just then, everything Tutu had learned over the last six months came together with chilling clarity. “You have water, but need Eyes,” he said to the Blind Man. Then he looked at Asilah. “You have Eyes, but need iron. And I…” He looked down at the sand, ashamed of how young and foolish he’d been. “… I have iron, but need water.” “And yet all of us,” the Blind Man said, “are from the same place.” “The City of Lies,” Asilah said. The Ajungo had done it to three different cities: preyed on the people’s desperation, offered them a broken deal, then named them liars. But how? How much power did the
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