How it opens
You came back to the marsh country in the spring of your twenty-eighth year, famous and poor.
Alexandria had argued about your last statue for an entire season, which is fame's exact shape.
ArchiasThe great Hermon. My sister's son. Still built like a ferryman and still dressed like a lawsuit.
Choose
Eat everything, praise the cook by name, and answer every question about Alexandria at equal length.
Turn the table's questions back on the town, and collect the year's news you missed in Alexandria.
Eat little, leave early, and sleep in the shed among the ghosts, because the work starts at dawn.