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The Smugglers of Ember Pass
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The lid came up and a pale face stared back at her. A child, curled in the crate with blankets and a water flask, eyes wide with terror. There were three more crates on the sled. Vesna's stomach turned to ice. She wasn't hauling cargo. She was hauling people.
Vesna pulled the lids off the rest. Four children, smuggled toward the border away from something worse than the cold. She tucked the blankets tighter and changed her plan completely. No drop point now. She steered the sled toward the old shepherd's hut where she could get them warm and figure out who to trust.
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