The Faded Shield

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The Faded Shield

Mara slept in the blue dark of the city’s underbelly, where the air tasted of rust and old rain. In her dream, she held a shield. It was not metal, but a slab of translucent ice, heavy as a coffin lid, etched with the intricate, failing blueprints of the city’s water mains. She stood before the Gates of the Conduit, the great iron doors that separated the dry upper city from the flooded lower...

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