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Lara Blackwell

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A Tent on the Border of an Unnamed Kingdom

Submitted to Contest #323

Another step and she will no longer be home. It is tempting to freeze, but her fears would not be honored in any case. It is better to choose than be chosen for. At least that is what she tells herself. The tent is lavish. Unsurprisingly. Tub, dresses, furniture, rugs. The finest there is to offer. Ornate and frilled, a show of power and wealth that is out of place in the desolation surrounding them. Outside, snow drifts to the branches of barren trees, the sky beyond them a bleak shade of grey. Inside the tent, erected for the sole purpose ...

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