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The Cartomancer's Last Hand
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Mireille doesn't sit. She grabs her coin box and runs up the bank toward the city lights. Behind her the Queen laughs, low and wet. The fog thickens and swallows the bridge. When Mireille looks back, the river is rising, climbing the stones far too fast.
Mireille throws her whole coin box into the river. 'A reader's payment!' she shouts, the old custom. The water goes still. The Queen, bound by the same rules as any debt, must accept the coins. The fog lifts, and the bridge is just a bridge again.
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