Chapter 14 · free to read
He came up the hill with fifty blades behind him, and he did not look at one of the walls he was about to break.
The abbess did not bar the gate. She had never barred it. She simply walked out into the middle of it.
Ash Sword Peak had bought itself a place in the column. The Elder had brought something up the hill in a censer.
Forty years blind. She had not needed to see a sword since the year he was born.
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