The Song Beneath the Sky

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rget how to fly and clocks sometimes tick backward if no one is watching. It s

Dawn was not

o name on the front. Her mother said the power came back the moment Ariella cried - not a wail, but a son

strange things happen: light bulbs flickered, pigeons cooed in unison, and once, a streetlight

ee. But sometimes, sh

ings. Ariella walked her usual path - past the corner café that sold lemon tarts, past Ol

llow tree with bark like bur

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s, but a full-length, ornately carved looking glass, s

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r side, his eyes pale as cloudlight, and when he

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mirror

something had pulled it, s

pigeon landed on the fence beside her a

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