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Weekly Contest #362
The baby wailed against my chest as I clawed my way up the last few feet of stone toward the ledge. My arms shook. My lungs burned. Still, I forced myself higher. If we did not reach the mountain path before the palace guards caught up, they would find us. They would take him. They would kill him, an innocent child condemned for the blood he had never asked to inherit.“Almost there, little one,” I promised, though my voice came out ragged and thin. My fingers closed over the edge at last. I only had to get him onto solid ground. Then I could...
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