Sorensen closed the bedroom door behind him.
Under her rule, they stopped using lots. They simply sent Minski the oldest person each season. Then the weakest. Then the loneliest.
"Come to kill you."
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"Come to bargain?" he asked.
Elder Sorensen was the one who finally said it aloud, his jaw working over a spoonful of boiled bark. "We have to wake him."
"Then you must choose someone who is not dying." Minski smiled. His teeth were small and white and perfect. "That was always the real bargain. Your ancestors just hid it behind the dying." The village fractured. Half said they should send Minski back to the pit and risk the blight. The other half — the ones who remembered the taste of boiled bark, the weight of a dead child — said Katrin was a fool. "We are strong now," they argued. "We can spare one a season. A criminal. An orphan. A stranger." Sorensen closed the bedroom door behind him
She turned away.
They drew lots. The loser was the schoolmaster's oldest son, a quiet boy of sixteen who had never hurt anyone. He did not scream when they brought him to Minski's house. He only looked at Katrin and said, "You promised we wouldn't become this."
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Katrin stared at him. "There's no one to give you."
"Here," Sorensen said. "Take her."
"Then we starve," said the blacksmith's wife. But her voice cracked on the last word, because her youngest had already stopped crying — which meant she was too weak to cry at all.
There were no more sick. No more dying. The village was healthy, and health, Minski explained, was a problem.
But then the blight ended.