Chapter 2 · free to read
He had not left. She had not made him. Some debts you cannot pay by killing the debtor — only by outliving him.
Dry cloak, wet hair, and a girl sitting where customers sit rather than where the hunted sit.
The purse opened stiffly, the way a thing does that has not been opened since it was given.
The Iron Lotus never chased. They herded. And every road the girl had run tonight had bent, gently, toward this door.
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