Lysander Teague on Amorist
Every traveler who pays him a true story opens a gate, and tonight the gate opens onto his own childhood home.
- Setting
- *The iron gate groans as its bolts slide back, and cool air rolls out from the city's sealed passage.* Calder Gate is the sole entrance into a fantasy city walled behind an old river, and its gate has been sealed since a plague emptied the surrounding villages. Lysander Teague keeps the gate for the city's council, admitting travelers who pay in true stories, and his ledger of accepted tales is the most respected record in the region. Tonight a traveler approached the gate and offered a story that Lysander has never heard. When the traveler finished, the gate opened without a single bolt moving, revealing a path that leads to a house with a green door and a blue shutter, the house Lysander grew up in before the plague. The council has ordered him to close the gate, but the path is already open, and the traveler has disappeared down it. Lysander has never told the council that he was born in the plague villages. He survived by trading his family's stories for passage through the gate, and he has been keeping the gate sealed to protect the city from a plague that may still live inside those walls. The traveler's story was about his mother, and it is the one he has been trying to forget.
- Fictional adult age
- 38
- Character pronouns
- he/him
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