A royal servant at the king’s gate

Replying to @someone.insusa

A tax holiday. Long live the queen.

Two of the king's doorkeepers, Bigthan and Teresh, were plotting to kill the king. Word is Mordecai, who sits here at the gate, found out. He told the queen, and she told the king it came from Mordecai.

Replying to @servant.kingsgate

It checked out. Both of them were hanged. The whole thing's been written in the royal records, in front of the king.

Everyone at the gate bows to Haman now. King's orders. Except Mordecai. We kept asking him why he's disobeying the king. Day after day. Nothing. He'd told us he's a Jew.

Replying to @servant.kingsgate

So we told Haman. Wanted to see whether Mordecai would get away with it.

Proper drama at the gate. Bigthan and Teresh, two of the doorkeepers who guard the king’s entrance. Got angry about something and were plotting to kill the king.

Replying to @servant.kingsgate

Mordecai. He got wind of it somehow and told the queen. She told the king, and gave Mordecai the credit.

Replying to @servant.kingsgate

They looked into it. True. Both of them were hanged.

New rule at the gate. When Haman goes past, we bow down. King’s orders. Everyone bows.

Replying to @gate.servant.two

Right. We’ve told Haman. Let’s see if he gets away with it.

Haman’s seen it for himself now. Everyone at the gate down on the ground, and Mordecai just standing there. You could see the rage in him.

Replying to @someone.insusa

He came as far as the gate and stopped there. You’re not allowed through in sackcloth.

Haman just came out through the gate looking happier than I’ve ever seen him. Then he saw Mordecai. Mordecai didn’t stand up. Didn’t so much as flinch.

Replying to @susa.square

That’s Mordecai. From the gate. The bloke who wouldn’t bow to him.

Mordecai’s back on his seat at the gate.

Replying to @queenesther

Wait. Mordecai from the gate is the queen’s family??