I should not exist. All children like me are stillborn, or die in infancy. Those who cannot grow stronger, die.
No empty child has ever reached a year of age, yet I am now 13. It has been a long and miserable 13 years, where the best I can manage to do is walk with difficulty. Sometimes, I cannot even manage that.
My clan has paid dearly for every minute of my life, and money is not so easy to obtain here at the edge of civilization. Perhaps I might have lived in this state for many years; a cripple, strong in mind but feeble in body. But when some unexpected guests come to our estate, everything changes. I will die at last – or learn to survive on my own.
PERFORMER:
Eric Jason Martin
**Eric Jason Martin** is the _AudioFile _Earphones and Audie Award–winning narrator of over 350 audiobooks. Favorite LitRPG series include the 10-volume _Titan_ series by Seth Ring, and the 5-volume _Sentenced to Troll_ series by S. L. Rowland. He is the director of Kate McKinnon and Emily Lynne’s series _Heads Will Roll _from Audible Originals and Broadway Video, and the Maximum Fun series _Bubble_, named an Apple Best of the Year podcast_. _He produced and narrated the New York Times Bestseller _Stinker Lets Loose!_, an Audible Original written by Mike Sacks and starring Jon Hamm. Eric is the author of the Audible-bestselling _New Arcadia_ series of multi-cast GameLit audiobooks. He lives in Pasadena, CA.
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