LAYER I · A GRAPHIC NOVEL

The Apprentice's Tale

Being a true and pitiful history of one Tom Verity, glover's prentice, who saw the Globe open and was never the same after.

CLANG · CLANG (the bell of St Magnus)

SCENE I

London Bridge, dawn

TOM VERITY, fifteen, apprentice glover, crosses the bridge with his master's parcel. The heads of traitors sit on pikes above him. The city smells of fish and smoke.

TomTwenty heads this morning. Father says it used to be more.

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