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A short story, originally published in The Anatomy of Fear, a fantasy horror anthology.
'If you enter, there's no leaving,' said the soldier guarding the door. 'Understood?'
His words were not a surprise. The city of Ashdwelyn was a mysterious place, closed to the outside world. Only its fantastic exports and rumours of opportunity, innovation, upward mobility, and magic, ever left.
We exchanged a glance, and my companion, Avarid Seem, nodded, his face just visible over his muscled arms, which were folded across his barrel of a chest.
It wasn't a choice when you considered the lives we were leaving. Besides, who would want to leave Ashdwelyn?
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