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The Smugglers of Ember Pass

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Inside the crate, packed in sawdust, lay stacks of forged passports and bundles of foreign cash. People-smuggling papers. Vesna swore under her breath. She was hauling someone's whole escape across the border, and Doru had paid her to never know it.

Vesna resealed the crate and kept climbing. Whoever needed these papers needed them badly enough to risk Ember Pass in winter. That was reason enough. She delivered the sled at dawn, took her pay, and asked nothing more.

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