Chapter 2 · free to read
She came down for a corpse. She found something the sect had never taught her to kill.
There is a second form. She had been taught never to open with it, and never told why.
I couldn't out-duel a real swordmaiden. But I didn't need a sword. I needed the ones already broken.
But the ash takes a price. Every blade I devour, it tries to devour me back.
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