She brushes the sand off the worn leather journal. The cover is scarred and notched. The world had not been kind to the battered book. Holding the light close  she tries to make out the title.

The memoirs of a forgotten and defeated warrior

She scratches the rest of the dirt off the bottom of the cover to read the rest. Her eyes open wide at what it reveals

by Ayrlyn Lessing

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