Chapter 5 · free to read
Every face turned. Not one of them asked a question. And the lamplight fell on nothing.
She had guided the dead out of this village for four years. She had never once wondered why there were always more.
One shadow in the whole village. That was the entire evidence that she was alive, and she was going to have to keep checking.
It was waiting for her at the bottom of the path, lit the old way, the friendly way. It knew exactly which colour she trusted.
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