There was a house at the edge of the woods, perched just beyond where the road ended. It wasn’t the kind of house that called attention to itself—no grand pillars or sprawling porches—just a place where things happened. A place where people lived and left and sometimes came back different.
The girl who grew up in that house knew how to read the air. She …
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