Hugo de Amiens, a French knight goes on crusade. Defeat by the Saracens forces him to flee into the desert where he meets a stranger who save him from death but the horror of what he has become soon dawns on him.
A senior-ranking police officer investigates a string of murders of high-profile ministers of the Maharaja's court during the tail end of the Golden Age of India.
I wrote this story for a friend of mine who needed to submit a sample of flash fiction for her homework. This very short story is based on a historical event and its connection with the Catholic Social Teachings.