Tales from Ashkarne Chapter 1 - Xali by AtlasWrites, literature
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Tales from Ashkarne Chapter 1 - Xali
The shelter she’d found wasn’t much, but Xali was thankful for it all the same. She huddled beneath a narrow ridge in the side of a hill, the rain falling a mere inch or two in front of her nose. If she’d been any bigger, there would have been no way to avoid it, but she was small and slender, even when compared to other girls her age.
Her head was bowed, dark hair hanging lank around her narrow features, thin lips drawn into a ferocious, frustrated frown as she worked. The sliver of bone she held was tiny, even in her small hands, and scarcely sharp enough to serve its purpose. She used it now to s