Sixth in our Heroes series, by our own Robert Rhodes. Art is courtesy of Leela Wagner.
“You’re a trueborn child of Goldspire,” his mother once said while stroking his hair. He’d fought an older boy behind the Butchers’ Market that afternoon and lost. “Quick. Tough. Clever. You’ll be a lord someday, Tan, if you use your head before your hands and heart.”
Later — seven years ago, now — he found her in a snowdrift near their home, her throat cut from ear to ear.
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Agree! And a perfect ending, too.
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