Chapter 5 · free to read
They left the well behind, but the well would not leave them.
He had carried it thirty years. It came out of him like drawing a splinter from the bone.
The seal did not take his years. It took a smith's whole life — and he was not the one who paid.
He had come to hate a monster. He found only a father who had already lost everything.
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