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“You search within,” she said without opening her mouth, her voice in the shade between heartbeats. “For what has been stolen, you first must give what you hold.”

Mara expected the grove to feast. She expected roots to rise and claim the book and perhaps with its consumption she might gain Avel whole, or at least teeth of him sufficient to bite into the night. The grove, however, surprised her: it refused the book. be grove cursed new

What Mara had not accounted for was how the grove learned. The first thing the grove learned was to be tempting. The second was to mimic the shapes of yearning. “You search within,” she said without opening her