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(1) The Trial – 1

“Guilty with a punishment of forty years of labor service in the City of Sandort,”...
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(2) The Trial – 2

The third arbiter placed a hand on Braun’s shoulder to still him (which only annoyed...
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(3) Flashback – 1

The night of Secondday, most of the town had turned out to hear the minstrel...
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(4) Flashback – 2

Kre stopped at a couple of the other tables to exchange short pleasantries with other...
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(5) Flashback – 3

Asking Cooter about anything that the old man wasn’t ready to talk about was an...
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(6) Flashback – 4

The small talk passed back and forth for a while until finally Kre saw a...
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(7) Flashback – 5

Kre swallowed the next words he had been ready to say and thought for a...
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(8) Flashback – 6

After a while of walking up the road towards his own house, about halfway there,...
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(9) Flashback – 7

Climbing through the window brought Kre into Cooter’s small den, where the older man kept...
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(10) Flashback – 8

Hoping that the intruder, possibly plural Kre suddenly realized, was still on the other side...
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(11) Flashback – 9

‘Sin?’ Kre wondered what Cooter meant by that. Maybe it did have something to do...
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(12) Flashback – 10

“What?” the assailant asked. As he did so, Kre had a new wave of feelings...
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(13) Flashback – 11

When the lady’s eyes opened again, the soft pale blue of her eyes conveyed a...
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(14) Flashback – 12

In the future, when he would retell this part of the story, he was never...
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(15) Flashback – 13

“I told you meddling hens not to influence that boy’s testimony!” the head arbiter snapped...
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(16) Sentencing – 1

Marxin paced back and forth in front of the crowd for a minute, tapping at...
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(17) Sentencing – 2

Marxin bowed his head towards the young lad seated in the chair of the accused....
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(18) Sentencing – 3

Lowil Marxin, hands clasped behind his back, slowly paced around Braun Osser. He stopped behind...
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(19) Sentencing – 4

“When our ancestors, the First Ones, came to this land escaping persecution, intolerance, and violence,...
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(20) Sentencing – 5

“Kre will travel freely,” Lowil snapped back, clearly frustrated at the desperate attempts by Braun...
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(21) Sentencing – 6

Art nodded his agreement with the plan as stated. “I’m afraid I’m at a loss...
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(22) Exile – 1

The trial, or whatever it ended up being, broke up fairly soon after that point....
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(23) Exile – 2

“I’ve never been in a hurricane before,” Kre protested blandly. “Some of us haven’t gotten...
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(24) Exile – 3

Kre and Syonette continued their walk to the Lodge in silence, with her still clinging...
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(25) Exile – 4

Kre closed his eyes and pursed his lips. He finally understood what she was getting...
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(26) Exile – 5

‘Perhaps Gantry wasn’t too far off…’ Kre thought to himself glumly. ‘Maybe I really should...
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(27) Exile – 6

Kre knew that shortly after he was arrested, Pete had been sent to the nearest...
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(28) Exile – 7

As the evening went on, Kre watched the room’s occupants take their leave and depart...
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(29) Exile – 8

“He makes a good point,” the strongman called out with a sage nod. “Usually in...
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(30) Exile – 9

For the rest of the evening after the showman ran out of Mintas, the townsfolk...
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(31) Exile – 10

Tonight though, as Pete held the belt high above his head in the room that...
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(32) Exile – 11

There were only half as many of them as would have been usual, but the...
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(33) Exile – 12

The next twenty minutes were filled with flamboyant flips, sensational strikes, and thrilling throws. The...
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(34) Exile – 13

They circled each other slowly, each one weaving their torches around in a sort of...
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(35) Exile – 14

“After all these years,” Pete laughed cheerfully. “The belt is finally back in the hands...
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(36) Exile – 15

“I guess I didn’t look at it that way,” Kre grumbled. “It really would be...
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