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The Smugglers of Ember Pass

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Vesna looked at the rifle, then at Doru, and made her choice. "You point a gun at me on my mountain," she said, "you'd better know it as well as I do." She snuffed the lantern and vanished uphill into the blizzard, leaving the three of them blind in the dark.

The blizzard swallowed Vesna's tracks. She circled wide, came down behind the town, and abandoned the cursed sled in a snowbank. No money, no cargo, no questions answered. But she was alive and off the mountain, and this time nobody died because of her. For now, that was enough.

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