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The Wielder of Lightning (Len's Song 2022 edition, Snippet 8)

The Wielder of Lightning (Len's Song 2022 edition, Snippet 8)

A story fragment from the Dustsong Cycle

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M. B. Heywood
Nov 07, 2022
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The Wielder of Lightning (Len's Song 2022 edition, Snippet 8)
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(Read Len’s Song, 2022 edition, Snippet 7.)

If Len had allowed himself another think, he might’ve called himself foolhardy for tossing caution aside. For a longish moment, he could see himself from above as if he were a bird, weightless and aloft on a breath of wind. His self below looked all kinds of witless, ignoring his certain knowledge that other folk meant nothing but trouble for him—and he for them.

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