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Weekly Contest #351
Hope regains consciousness to the scent of smoke, incense, and blood. The first thing her senses register is that overpowering reek of oud and metal. The second thing is the wet on her face and hard ground beneath her. Clearly she had been crying in her sleep, either that, or whoever had picked her up made her bleed. The second is more plausible - her bones ache, tiredness running marrow deep. She’s not surprised that, as she shifts, pain lances through her at all angles. People don’t tend to be all that caring with unconscious bodies that ...
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