Smoke and Sand
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The crime of witchcraft carries a death sentence, of course. And since Yanna is a heretic temple-robber as well as a heathen magic-worker, she cannot expect any mercy - all that the execution waited on is finding a way to kill the witch safely.
But that is no simple thing.
After all, how can a smoke witch be burned?
They could bleed her, perhaps - but witchblood poisons the earth and sinks in to make the groundwater toxic too. No, too risky, in this drought.
They could order her buried and stoned - but demons rise where a witch's life is struck out - and there had been one visiting the city's wall ever since the day she was captured...
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