“Why are you hiding back there?” the constable said to the golem.

“Someone wrote ‘hide’ on a scroll and stuck it in my mouth,” the golem responded. “I’m compelled to do whatever the scroll says, officer! It’s not my fault.”

“I see,” the constable said, writing PATROL THE NEIGHBORHOOD on a scroll with a stub of a pencil and rolling it up.

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