The Boy Who Drummed the Thunder
Chapter 14 · free to read
Storm-metal only takes a shape in a fire that never goes out. So the Empire found a fire that never goes out, and fed people into it.
It took Meilin four minutes to work out the arithmetic of the rack: one gauntlet, one smith, and the smith is part of the recipe.
She was four minutes too slow. He had already looked.
Beat, beat, beat. He did not put the fire out. He picked it up and held it over the conscripts' heads like a roof.
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