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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party Part 2, Chapter 1

By M.T. Anderson

Part 2, Chapter 1

It's the day after the whipping, and Bono tells Octavian that Octavian can't wear a shirt.
Why?
Octavian's back is completely bloody, so it'll just ruin the shirt.
Octavian's really disturbed by the cuts on his back because they're so open, spilling all his pain out; he feels the pain of the wounds so much that he cries.
Bono gives him the shirt anyway and tells him to put it on, but Octavian just shakes his head and cries some more.
He tells Bono that he pooped in the ice house, and that the poop wasn't weighed.
He asks Bono to tell Mr. Gitney the poop needs to be weighed, but Bono tells him nothing's being measured or weighed anymore.
Meanwhile, Cassiopeia is in the cellar, wrapped in a ball, bleeding into her dress like the stars bleeding into the evening sky.

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