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Chapter 5: End of The Road
The city presented itself before the walls came into view. Beorn identified the signals in sequence. First came the smoke from cook fires, drifting outward in a steady layer. Beneath that, he caught the flat dirty scent of standing water, likely from marshland somewhere to the south.
A third element sat under both. The accumulated presence of a place that had been taking in people for a long time and hadn’t fully processed any of them.
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