Whose Mind Is Like to the Asbeston Stone

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Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 360 words of the Assize from Luke's point of view. There's more and worse here than even his captors can know of. I'd meant to finish this scene today, but not now; not in the going down of daylight; not so close upon the borders of my dreams. It would be pull punches or lack all wholesome sleep, and neither appeals. Tomorrow, then: an end of this, and the way clear to the climax of the chapter.