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Saltmarsh

The Price of the Flame

Chapter 2 · free to read

A keeper who never ages. A sea that let me live. I should have run. I stayed to ask why.

A key for every keeper before her. A hundred names the sea had swallowed.

One key was not rusted like the rest. One key was warm.

Far above us, for the first time in a hundred years, the great lamp guttered.

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