Chapter 14 · free to read
Rei's first drill: two candles, one flame, held level for a full minute. Sena taught it back to her every morning for nine days.
Koga had been keeping his own book inside theirs since the year they took his eye.
Not to beat her. To reach the one seat the house cannot easily put a hand into.
On the ninth morning something in the hollow lit for a count of three, and went out again. Nobody in that room said a word about it.
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