Chapter 10 · free to read
A wheel, a stone and a stair. Three ordinary deaths in nine days, and I paid for all three in bone.
She stood up in front of forty people for me. It cost her every friend she had left in that hall.
Nine days of paying in bone, and the silver had still spread the width of two fingers.
It came away in my fingers with no pain at all, which is the part that frightened me.
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