With summer came scents, some sweet and filling the senses with delight, others rancid and repellent. In Altura, with the last of the revenants incinerated, the scent of smoke and burning flesh finally came to be replaced with the fresh fragrance of summer flowers. A new odor wafted throughout Sarostar’s western quarter: the smell of wood shavings and fresh mortar. Soon, with time, the free cities Castlemere and Schalberg would see the same transformation. As always, in the icy north there was no smell at all. But with the army of Akari warriors heading south, the summer heat would begin to
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