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Submitted to Contest #60
Fears. Everybody has them. Some big, some small. Some rational, some irrational. In the Shudder House people faced their fears. All of them. Tomorrow Rell had to go through the house. After all, he was 13 now, he had to. He didn’t want to refuse and become a Jilt. Someone who was rejected by society. Who couldn’t hold a rank, and lived very poorly. Rell slipped on his red shirt. He was getting sick of red. Since he hadn’t gone through the Shudder House yet he could only wear red shirts. This was to mark him as rankless. Jilts are also restri...
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