Bramah and the Beggar Boy by Saklikar, Renée Sarojini -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Praise for Bramah and the Beggar Boy Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Welcome to the World of THOT J BAP Introduction Characters Locations Part One

Arrival at the Gate of the Winter Portal

That Gate, the Oracle, Her Icy Breath Fragments of Old Reports Unverified Consortium’s Song Resistance Song From the Wishing Well to Perimeter’s Edge The Summons: Bramah on a Job Village Women Gossip Video Surveillance Monitor, Malfunctioning Overheard As Recorded by Several Un/named Witnesses

The Adventures of Bramah and the Beggar Boy

Their First Adventure Their Second Adventure Their Third Adventure The Beggar Boy Meets Bramah’s Grandmother The Things They See The Map They Steal The Things They Take Grandmother’s Instruction Video Surveillance: Investigator’s Logbook Bramah and the Beggar Boy Find an Old Oak Box The Letter They Find Partial Transcript: The Rehabilitated Scientists Photographs of Prisoners Court Records of the Lost Bill of Lading for Masks Scratched Disc: Recording of the Captives The Notes of the Beekeeper’s Daughter The Map of the Last Knight Video Remnant of the Migrants

The Parchment Scroll

Unfurled Chased to the Gate of the Spring Portal, 2050 The Great Abandonment The Five Catastrophes Followers of Aunty Maria Aunty Maria’s Clandestine Harvest Aunty Maria Told Us Scientists on the Run In the Dry, We Find Our Moments to Rest Our Comparative Study: The Beauty Bush Our Observations May Well Go Unheeded Battle Song of the Streets After Curfew, Two Masked Scientists, Roaming On the Desk of the Investigator Inside Detention Centre C Orders for Surveillance The Curiously Disappearing Document Taken from the Notebooks of Aunty Maria, After the Science Trials Our Testimony About Aunty Maria To Be Confiscated: Three Hologram Plates

Plate #1 Plate #2 Plate #3

Song of the Scientists After the Battle of Kingsway, the Bees Posted on Cy-Board #6: Aunty Maria’s Lament The Last Known Observation Report Captured at the Gate of the Summer Portal, 2052 The Great Dispersal The Good Doctor, as Posted on Cy-Board #6 The Good Doctor in Paris The Good Doctor, Witness to the Fate of Children Resister Statements Pinned to Cy-Board #6 Logbook of the Guards, Paris Fifth Gate Dr. A.E. Anderson, Person of Interest From a Transcript Given to the Guards of the Fifth Gate Partial Record: The Whereabouts of Dr. A.E. Anderson, Tracked Transport Plane Manifest Paris to Pacifica, We Stitched Our Fragments Dr. A.E. Anderson Returned to Pacifica Found Inside a Consortium Lab, Pacifica

Partial Record #1 Partial Record #2 Partial Record #3

Logbook of the Guards, Detention Centre C, Pacifica Stolen from Detention Centre C, Pacifica

First Report Second Report Third Report

Resisters Brought in for Questioning

We admit to surveying, up by the Eve River We admit we knew Aunty Maria We admit to helping the Doctor We deny knowledge of her chalice

The Resisters Relinquish Dr. Anderson’s Instructions for a Chalice As Narrated by the Investigator Conscripted at the Gate of the Autumn Portal, 2055 As Reported to the Investigator, Detention Centre C

Informant #1 Informant #2 Informant #3

The Good Doctor, as Posted on Cy-Board #6 Desiderata A Guard of the Fifth Lures Betty, Daughter of the Village Spy The Work of Dr. Anderson as Recounted by the Village Spy Betty, the Daughter of the Village Spy Betty’s Statement Documents Obtained By Guards of the Fifth

The Anderson Family, Paternal Side The Anderson Family, Maternal Side

Partial Record: The Whereabouts of Dr. A.E. Anderson Dr. Anderson, Rendered to the Investigator Dr. Anderson Refuses to Answer Dr. A.E. Anderson, at Detention Centre C From a Transcript Assembled by the Guards of Detention Centre C The Interrogation of Dr. A.E. Anderson Dr. Anderson After Her First Beating

The Tale of the Silver Sandals The Tale of Barnston Island, as Then Was Called

Dr. Anderson After Her Second Beating

All My Aunties Those West Coast Trails Dr. Anderson Hallucinates

Dr. A.E. Anderson, Broken by a Brand Dr. Anderson Learns of the Kept Women Dr. Anderson, as Kept by the Investigator Dr. Anderson, Collaborator Dr. Anderson Sings Herself to Sleep Dr. Anderson: Testimony The Last Dream of Dr. A.E. Anderson The Last Words of Dr. A.E. Anderson The Spy’s Tale to the Investigator The Information Tribunal Meeting of the Consortium After the Meeting, a Verdict After the Verdict, Orders: Signed & Sealed The Execution of Dr. A.E. Anderson, 2057

The Song of the Stonebreakers’ Yard

Smuggled Out of Detention Centre C Report of the Guards of the Fifth, After a Search for the Little Beggar Girl Four Aunties at Perimeter’s Edge Aftermath: Resisters and Migrants Imprisoned At the End of the Parchment Scroll

The Adventures of Bramah and the Beggar Boy Continued

Return to the Winter Portal Bramah Teaches the Beggar Boy About the Stars Honey Hunting in the Wilds of the Western Borealis Search for the Bitter Green Willow Bramah and the Resisters The Battle of the Whispering Trees and After What Bramah Learned, She Taught Grandmother Hears News of the Four Aunties Around the Campfire Called If Only…

The Tale of the Girl and the Disappearing Streams The Tale of the Girl with a Thousand Pockets The Tale of the Girl with Far-Seeing Eyes The Tale of the Boy with the Red Canoe The Tale of the Girl Who Slept with Spiders

The Things They Discover About the Old Oak Box Inside the Old Oak Box, the Beggar Boy Finds Another Map Inside the Old Oak Box, the Beggar Boy Finds a Document The Old Oak Box, Gone! Hiding Out with the Night Stitcher Bramah Tells the Beggar Boy She Must Leave Bramah Remembers a Lullaby Bramah’s Secret Many Miles to Cross The Investigator At the Chapel of the Stone Aunties The Last Song at the End of the Known World At Perimeter’s Edge

Part Two

Abigail Discovered

Ruin, a Map for Perimeter After Curfew, Those Street Sweepers Sing The Four Aunties of the Wishing Well As Heard on the Albion Ferry Found Pinned to a Far Wall, Perimeter’s Edge Found: One Oak Box. Locked.

Stained Parchment, Engraved Cotton Scrap, Embroidered A Blood-Stained Letter & Other Things Fare Forward, Voyagers: Hologram #1 Fare Forward, Voyagers: Hologram #2 Fare Forward, Voyagers: Hologram #3

Heard Outside Tower Juniper

Abigail and Aunty Agatha at the Farm

Heard Outside Aunty Agatha’s Kitchen, 2058 We Live On Just Like That Aunty Agatha’s Initiation into Portal Maintenance Aunty Agatha at the Ash Tree Aunty Agatha’s Lullaby About the Year 2020 Aunty Agatha Remembers Aunty Agatha Teaches Abigail Two Farmhouse Songs

Skipping Song The Widow’s Song

The Young Dr. A.E. Anderson as Told by Aunty Agatha Aunty Agatha Takes Abigail to the Wishing Well Aunty Agatha Gossips About Her Long-Dead Husband Aunty Agatha Tells Abigail About the Before-Time Aunty Agatha and the Parchment Fragment These Charts Your Mother Sent to Me Aunty Agatha Gives Abigail a Letter The Keepsake Hologram Message of Dr. A.E. Anderson to Her Adopted Daughter, Abigail Abigail Abandons the Farm

The Adventures of Abigail

Abigail Up Against Consortium Everywhere She Went Abigail Accidentally Falls into a Before-Time Portal

i. ii.

Abigail in Paris Abigail in Ahmedabad Abigail in Baghdad The Encounter Called by the Summer Solstice Abigail Returns to the Farm Informers Sent by Consortium Evening Memories Around the Circle Called You Could Have… Abigail Gets Work as a Day Labourer Abigail and the Android The Lost Holograms of Dr. A.E. Anderson

Hologram #1: The Summons Hologram #2: Heeding the Call

Abigail in the House of the Makers

In the House of Clay and Lime In the House of the Glass Blowers In the Weavers’ Guild Hall

The Guild Hall Makers Chant Their Secret

Abigail and Bartholomew

Pursued from the Gate of the Autumn Portal That Time of the Wildfires, Abigail Sends Word That Moment When They Fell Abigail and Bartholomew Help a Group of Seed Savers All the Things That Then Happened Hunted by Agents of Consortium One Night, a Bard Sings of the Battle of Kingsway Leaving Pacifica to Join the Resistance As Foretold Although She Did Not See It Then Time-travelling with Bartholomew Finding Refuge with an Ex-Lover After Argument, Abigail and Bartholomew Accept a Mission The Killings After the Arrest of Bartholomew Abigail Contemplates Divine Assistance Abigail Waits Outside Bartholomew’s Prison Abigail Sends Word to Bartholomew from the Wars Caravanserai: Abigail’s Quest for Bartholomew Abigail Searches the Secret Gardens of Paris Abigail Risks a Meeting with the Butcher of Paris In Ahmedabad, Abigail Secures a Rendezvous In Baghdad, Abigail Deepens Her Search Abigail Indentured in the Bee Palace of Baghdad Escape from the Bee Palace Battles and Deprivations Abigail Secures Bartholomew’s Release from Prison Abigail and Bartholomew Rejoin the Resistance Abigail Disputes the Findings of a Stray Oracle Guards and Informers Track Down Abigail and Bartholomew Abigail and Bartholomew Arrange a Secret Meeting Abigail Conceives Her Child Abigail at the Lake To That Which Is to Come Brought to the Portal of the Misshapen Season The Letters of Abigail and Her Lover, Bartholomew

Migrant Camp #3 Migrant Camp #8 Migrant Camp #3 Migrant Camp #8 Migrant Camp #3

From Migrant Camps to the Stone Marker

As Recounted by the Sole Woman Survivor, Migrant Camp #3 As Heard around the Migrants’ Campfire Inscribed on the Walls of Migrant Camp #3 The Tale of the Village Spy, Found in the Year 2087 Lament of the Stone Marker Relinquished at the Gate

At the Gate of the Unlucky

The Oracle of Gold and Green Village Women Gossip Four Aunties at the Wishing Well Outside Perimeter, Faint Echoes Heard The Beggar Boy’s Song

A Note to the Reader

Lives Lived in THOT J BAP: Book One Event Summary of THOT J BAP: Book One

Part One Part Two

Chronology of Major Events in THOT J BAP: Book One A Note on Time Travel in THOT J BAP About the Poetry

Acknowledgements Dedication

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