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Beneath Ceaseless Skies | And The Ones Who Walk In by Sarah Avery

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The girl who had never known hunger turned her back on that house and walked, her hands empty, right out of the city. She did not say goodbye to her mother. That first day, as the road stretched through farm villages, she found public wells to stop at for water. No one troubled her when she lay down for the night under a roadside tree. Even this far beyond the gates, the city’s luck protected her. In the morning, a farmer pointed the way to an orchard where tradition permitted gleaner’s pickings to people like her. Tart cherries, and not many of them this far into summer, but they were better than nothing. She spent all the coins in her pocket, though she kept her sewing needles in their little brass case, on a pack already loaded with needful things from an old man at a lonely farmstand. Last Chance Gear and Provisions for All, his sign read, Please Pay If You’re Able. “You sure?” he asked. But the girl told him, and herself, that she’d never turn back. “Well,” he said, “here’s everyt

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