Chapter 5 · free to read
For a guide and a town's loyalty, Arav agreed to break the warlord's chain on the only living well.
She named it still-fire — the draw that binds instead of destroys.
The warlord did not come to bargain.
Not death. Something the warlord feared more — surrender, in front of everyone he had bled.
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