The Storyteller: Of Gem Traders and Pearl Divers

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Nineteenth Birthday

When they returned to Ryas a year later, with Argo’s and a second captured pirate ship in tow, Tu was gone. The story was that the Orana had visited in the dead of night and its crew had broken her out of prison, paying off or slaughtering dockhands and prison guards as they needed.

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