The wind did not howl in KalaQila. It whispered, like a woman who had learned to speak without making a sound.
Edward Ashworth woke on the third day to the smell of wet wool and something he could not name. He was lying on a straw mattress in a room that might have been a stable, or a prison cell, or both. The walls were made of packed earth and stone, cracked in places where monsoon water had seeped through during the rains. A single window, barred with iron, let in a strip of grey light. He did not...
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