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THE PYRE | ONC2021
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  • Parts 9
  • Time 44m
Ongoing, First published Jan 23, 2021
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"You can't burn all of the witches, dear child. Where one falls, another drinks her blood and rises." 

A sellsword discovers that perhaps, just perhaps, maybe the humanity she is trying to save doesn't have much humanity after all. 

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