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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.
At dawn Vesna staggered down to the drop point, frostbitten but alive, every crate still sealed on the sled. Doru's partner paid her in full and stared. "Nobody takes the ridge in a storm," he said. "Then nobody else could've made it," she answered, and finally let herself rest.
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