Elder Luo returned at dawn without a glass bead. He carried a folded paper so tightly that the corners had cut crescents into his palms. Lin Xue was grinding fever bark beside the communal kitchen when he put the paper before her. "They would sell me three days of water," he said. "But the steward insisted my grandchildren be named as heirs to the rainfall pledge. I asked if that meant they…
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