The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The black soil of the Faded Root did not smell of earth, but of wet iron and old blood, a scent that clung to Athol Sutherland’s hands long after he had scrubbed them with lye. He was forty-two, a cartographer who had spent his life measuring the edges of the world, and he was currently bleeding from a cut on his thumb that refused to clot. The haze from the fires in the mainland valleys...

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