The Girl Who Lights the Way Home
Chapter 14 · free to read
Nine inked lanterns. Eight of them stood on the road. The ninth mark sat out in the middle of the river.
She had not walked as far as the river in nine years.
Last night. Last sunrise, with about forty minutes of dark left in it.
Eighteen lights, if you counted the reflections. The road stopped being a road.
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