A 4-part Spanish story series
What Survives the Fire
Lo que sobrevive al fuego
- Part 1: Under Another Man's Seal
C1 Spanish · 8 min read · Free
A mislabeled crate on the Alexandrian docks holds two impossible things: a cure for the fever killing the princess, and dialogues of Aristotle the world believed lost. A rival scholar's wax seal stands between them and daylight. Tonight, Caesar sets fire to the harbor.
- Part 2: What Fits Under One Arm
C1 Spanish · 9 min read
Two treasures wait inside a burning warehouse: the lost words of Aristotle, and the medicine that could save a dying princess. Merit has one pair of hands, one collapsing mentor, and the length of time it takes a roof to fall.
- Part 3: Ink from Memory
C1 Spanish · 9 min read
The scroll that can save a dying princess survived the fire, except for its most important lines, which now exist in exactly one place: the memory of the prisoner accused of stealing it.
- Part 4: What the Fire Could Not Read
C1 Spanish · 5 min read
The fever breaks at dawn, and with it, a powerful man's alibi. In the ashes of Alexandria's docks, a copyist with an inconvenient memory turns out to be the most dangerous witness of all.