Chapter 6 · free to read
He could not fight a herald. He could not climb a chain he could not reach. So he did the only thing he had ever been good at: he set up a shop.
Every welder learns to see the seam — the line where two things stopped being one thing. Under the ember's light, Cass began to see them in the world.
Stone is not metal. Stone does not take a bead. It took the bead.
The column cost him an eye's colour. Nothing in Aldermere was free, and the fire always billed the man holding it.
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