married off his daughter

keep yourself in the shadows. Tell me the truth. Who are you? And why are you in this hut with a woman you were paid to take away?”

She heard him move. Not away from her, but toward her. He knelt at her feet, his knees hitting the packed dirt with a dull thud. He took her hands in his. They were shaking.

“I was a physician,” he whispered.

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