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The Cafe at the End of Lantern Lane

Fox-Fire, Borrowed

Chapter 10 · free to read

The mountain rain had got into the woodpile. A cafe that cannot brew cannot earn anything at all.

Fox-fire does not need dry wood. Fox-fire has never needed anything.

The cafe brewed all night. Nobody counted the cups.

Five sparks, five nights. 'One fire, lent freely. Paid with: a fox who insists he is not helping.'

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