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The Smugglers of Ember Pass
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Vesna refused to gamble on the killing slope again. She took the long ridge route, twice the distance and twice the cold. Her hands went numb and the storm screamed, but she kept the sled moving, step by step, all night.
On the ridge Vesna found two climbers half-buried and barely breathing, Doru's runners who'd gone ahead and never arrived. She cut the crates loose, loaded the men onto her sled, and chose them over the cargo. The money was gone, but she dragged them down to the warm lights of the valley.
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