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Traveling to ancient tribes to build infrastructure
Chapter 1
ull, hot and sharp, like a white-hot wire carving into her brain.
Mutated humans. Their shoulders were broad, their arms thick with corded muscle, skin marked by rough patcheght through her flimsy clothes. She shivered violently,
. Fear. The terror of being a weak rodent-variant female in a world th
ce booming over the murmuring crowd. "If you don't have a partn
s crisscrossed their faces. Their eyes, greedy and predatory, locked onto
rambled backward, her shoulder blades hitting the rough stone of
s of bodies. She needed someone who wouldn't hur
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od a figure. He leaned against the moss-covered stone, his posture slum
fabric. He clapped a hand over his mouth. When he pulled it away, dark red blood stained hg their features. They shuffled away, leaving a w
rn in her lungs, and pushed herself off the wall. She ignored the three
e turned her back to the wind, using her thin
gray-blue, cold and guarded, like chips of ice. He
was steady. She raised her right hand, dust clinging to h
low enough that only he could hear over the noise of the s
He looked at her outstretched hand, then slowly scanned her body. Sh
irk touched the corner of his pale lips. He raised his hand
was brief
a worn piece of parchment and a charcoal stick. He scrat
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ockery washed over the square. Laughter and jeers echoed o
ned her head, catching Elvin's eye, and
ne, his arm shaking as he forced his tall body upright. He l
, the spit, the whispered insults. They walked down the muddy, slippery slope leading away
