A seamstress refuses to dress a palace merchant’s earnings but accepts those of a man who traded with him, because she can pull his thread, while the palace leaves none within reach.
Once upon a time, a merchant sold honey made from flowers that kept people coming back, even after their teeth fell out.
He brought his earnings to a seamstress and asked her to make them a coat they could wear into the market without anyone knowing where they had come from.
“Where do your flowers grow?”
“In the palace gardens.”
She handed back his pouch.
Days later, another man arrived. He had sold the merchant wooden crates for his honey jars. His earnings needed a new coat too.
This time, the seamstress took his measurements.
After he left, her sister looked up from sorting buttons.
“Both pouches smell the same. Why did you turn the first one away?”
“Because he carries the palace’s honey. If I pull his thread, they’ll take off his coat and put it on another man.”
“And this one?”
“The crates are his. The shop is his. And I have his key.”
Her sister stopped sorting.
“So you trust him?”
The seamstress passed the thread through the needle’s eye.
“I can pull his thread.”
“And the palace?”
“The palace never comes in for a fitting. It sends a man, then says it sent no one.”
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Once upon a time, a merchant sold honey made from flowers that kept people coming back, even after their teeth fell out.
