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CHAPTER 41: The Sickness

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Nerissa POV

It started with the smell. The particular heightening of everything around me that arrived overnight and by

morning made the kitchen corridor unbearable.

I stood at the entrance to it and pressed my back against the wall and breathed through

my mouth and waited for it to pass.

Meat from the morning preparation. Oil on the cooking fires. The layered smell of the

kitchen that had been in continuous use for years and absorbed all of it into its walls.

None of it had bothered me
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