At the End of the Ashen Forest, the Sage Learns of the Boy's Past Life

For sixteen years, Soru has known only the isolation hut at the edge of Rusta Village—a wooden cage three hundred paces from the boundary stone, where stones fly through the window and prayers condemn him before he is even awake. Branded with the ash-mark since birth, he is "the cursed child," living proof of the forest-folk's taint, kept alive only to be purified by violence twice a month and stoned whenever misfortune strikes the village. But Soru carries a secret even the prayer-master's rit

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