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<p>(Participant in the Royal Road June 2024 Community Magazine Contest)</p> <p>[THEIR FINAL STAND PITS THEM NOT JUST AGAINST MAN — BUT A BERSERK ALLY ABOUT TO COMMIT A FAR WORSE CRIME.]</p> <p>The Tanglesooth Druids are on their last legs. Humanity's plague has washed over their neighbors and rivals, and the goblins are forced to defend their village — and its Fluxus that empowers them, the Dryad herself.</p> <p>And then a champion of theirs, Aodh, goes rogue and breaks into the Blessed Tree. The Dryad's home.</p> <p>With little choice, rising apprentice Emrys and his grandmother Birog are forced to confront Aodh and his bewildering act of treachery at such a critical time. His magic has grown warped and bizarre, aggravating all that it touches, and its foulness is a grave threat to them all. He must be stopped before the humans overrun their home. If whatever he's planning succeeds, after all—</p> <p>There may be a reckoning no one will live to tell the tale about.</p>
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