A map

Flash fiction on a prompt from https://substack.com/@feastsandfables

He turned the vellum sheet and was shocked at the liberties that were taken: manatees and cockatrices on the corners underneath the star-rimed basilisk. All knew that these creatures did not exist. Florid rooks into the area where no kingdom could support them. But every detail had at least one glaring omission and commission. How could the Count ask him for desertion? It was an abomination… Just an obamanation. The map was obviously wrong because everyone knew that Jerusalem was at the center of the world.