Chapter 6 · free to read
One question can undo a whole victory. I already knew this one would.
Stolen fire fights the thief. Given fire chooses its hand. But a fire given once can be OFFERED a second door.
A contract signed in despair. Answered, at last, by a hand that only ever asked.
It wasn't a rescue. It was a receipt marked closed. She'd been waiting sixteen years to hear the debt was cleared.
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