The Faded Ruin
The slip of paper was thin as onion skin, the ink a bruised purple that smelled faintly of iron. Elian held it up to the guttering light of the communal hearth, his hands trembling not from the cold, but from the weight of the grain sack slung over his shoulder, which had grown heavier with every step he took toward the pantry. He was twelve years old, though he had worked the fields since he...
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