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Submitted to Contest #190
Though he had already sworn himself to revenge, Akvil sought the blessing of the gods before he committed murder. He pushed aside the tanned hide which covered the entranceway to the priestess hut, and the old woman called him by name. Though her milky-white eyes had been unseeing for nearly a decade now, she recognized him before he’d even uttered a word. She sat in the shadow cast by the early-spring sunlight, with the dull embers of her fire seeming to perpetually glow even when unstoked. Undrawn bone and roots lay waiting at her s...
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