EPILOGUE
A CHILD’S VOICE IN DARKNESS
When adults write about children — do they remember that children can read?
A child’s voice in darkness.
LANTHE
When adults write about children— do they remember that children can read?
Silence. A single light illuminates the child’s drawing. It is a house. There are three figures outside it. They are holding hands. The printer begins again. One page. Then another. Then another. THE FOOL’s voice:
THE FOOL
And the Kingdom continued to produce documents. But somewhere— someone finally asked what they were for.
Blackout.
This is a work of fiction. Characters, events and circumstances have been fictionalised.