Chapter 4 · free to read
Chapter Four: The Weight of the Wave. To hold back a river you have just begged to come home is to fight the very answer to your prayer.
Below the arch of held water, the town he had crossed a desert to reclaim looked up and saw its sky turn to river.
The river did not fall on the town. It remembered how to run beneath it.
For the first time in forty years, the sacred river ran through Aghanpaar in daylight — and it had run through a living man to get there.
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