The Golden Scar
The notice lay on the cold iron table, the paper thin and brittle as old skin, and I read the figures three times before the ink stopped swimming in my vision. Fourteen hundred credits. That was the debt. That was the price of my sister Mara’s freedom from the labor pits, a sum that exceeded my entire savings by more than I could have spent in a lifetime of honest, bleeding work. I signed my...
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