Chapter 14 · free to read
The Cathedral answered four hundred painted doors with the Fifth Gallery. Four of the children didn't get out.
He took the shortcut. The soil went cold and he kept pushing, because rule four was the only line in that ledger written for a coward.
They rose. They simply didn't come back.
Growing costs. Un-growing costs more, and it bills the same account. I put them down myself and I paid for all four out of my own arm.
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