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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 heard shouting below. Doru's buyers had come up the trail early, and from their words they didn't want the children safe. She had a head start and a mountain she knew better than anyone alive. She put her back into the sled and ran for the high ice they'd never dare to follow.
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