Chapter 72: Attrition

Chapter 72: Attrition

The map had fourteen marks on it that had not been there the morning Beorn returned from the eastern gate. Most were red chalk, militia engagements, each one a position held or taken or lost. Three were in plain charcoal for locations where the intelligence was uncertain enough that committing a color felt like false confidence.

The marks clustered in the slums and the passage between the warehouse district and the miners’ quarter in a way that told its own story about where the last weeks struggle had happened.

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