The Leaning Wall | Grimdark Fantasy

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In the besieged city of Musang, the gates are bricked shut, the rule is absolute—no one leaves, no one yields. Survival is measured in half-loaves of barley bread and roof beams torn from ancestral homes to brace a failing stone wall. When Lahegroo Nortong crawls out of the enemy’s thorn pens and scales the battlements under cover of darkness, he buys his place inside with a dead steward’s token and a desperate lie. Thrown onto the crumbling, timber-propped ramparts alongside Naedandra Spiker, an outland mercenary harboring a treasonous secret, and under the watchful eye of Mentist Tchwilday, the pr...