The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

Chapter One "Item: One clay vessel, cracked. Debt: Forty ryō. Status: Unpaid." Yamato Suzuki sat in the mud, the rain hammering the back of his neck like a fist against a drum. The jar in his hands was cold, heavier than clay should be, and the root inside it whispered a low, rhythmic thud against the cracked rim. He wanted to deliver it to the village elder, to pay his father’s debt before the...

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