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The sheets were soaked with sweat. The chill of the night air bit at Ewald’s bare legs and his limbs flailed inside the sleeves of his tunic. Something woke him. The crisp smell of a field on fire, carried on the wind, but gone as soon as he tried to find it again. And for several heart-stopping moments, Ewald held himself perfectly still, desperate to ascertain if it was only a dream. Alone in the basement of the herbalist’s hut, there was no fire, no wind, and no reason to be awake.