The Girl Who Lights the Way Home
Chapter 15 · free to read
Sixty years under a bridge, and she stopped one arm's length short of the gate.
Forty-two of forty-two. It had taken sixty years and nine lanterns.
The gate stayed open a full minute. He did not look at it once.
The gate shut behind them without a sound, four months before it was due.
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