The Wistful Crossroads

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I counted the hours I had left in the debtor’s ward, ticking them off on my fingers like the stitches in a coarse hem. Twelve hours until the High Priest’s alms collection, twelve hours until I could steal the golden chalice and pay the blood-debt that kept my mother, Agnes, breathing in the damp cells below the city. I woke with a scream in my throat, the taste of iron and old coins thick on...

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