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uck midnight-

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with thorns. When she smiled, her teeth were acor

Dryad

. "You weren't s

Vanthorne in cursed soil, boy, you reap what you sow." She turned hollow e

retching toward the queen li

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was at the q

the

splinters in its darkness. "The forest doesn't give back what

llowed. "

keep wrapped in thorns

n* who'd dropped her on the steps and whis

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alms to the earthen

meet her eyes

hornes bound the forest sixty years ago with witch-blood. His blo

ged. Shadows tore

the bone

wearing tarnished Bl

"Every Hunt leaves

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e cemetery as the oak

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