The Girl Who Lights the Way Home
Chapter 13 · free to read
The eighth lantern was on the ridge. There had been a path once. There was not one now.
From the road it looked like one slow star going the wrong way up the sky.
The eighth lantern lit on the summit, and the whole river road below it turned orange at once.
Eight of nine. And the ninth was the mark nobody had ever been able to find on the map.
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