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"I knew you would, which is why I stayed put," she said "I figured the one thing stronger than th of will to reunite with linted "Death told o"

Gran already knew; she wouldn’t have rested until she’d found out Mo you It tore at her"

"I hate that she was hurting frorip felt weak, her bones brittle "About Haven"

"Was the house hurt on Day Zero? I thought for sure the oaks would protect it"

"They did" Those twelve iven their lives "Months after the Flash, the Lovers closed in with an army I didn’t want them to have our hoone?"

"I’m so sorry"

She shook her head "No Don’t be From what I’ve heard, the Lovers were as evil as they’d ever been I’d rather you destroy our home than let them have it" She frowned "You said we burned it"

"Jack and I" Just saying his name tested my tourniquet "He was a bayou boy I met in school He saved me from the Lovers, and about a dozen other tiaze flicked over my face "You’re in love with him?"

I nodded "But hedied in the E about a massacre" Gran tucked a curl behind ular? Not in any way "He was an extraordinary non-Arcana" I found s he’d done Through the stories, Gran learned about the past several months of my life and some of my encounters with other Arcana

I left out the part when Aric had abducted ave , "I’m so sorry Jack has passed on I would’ve liked to see you with a boy fro all the time She drew back "Did you speak Cajun French with hihten, constrict "He loved that I could Thank you for teaching , didn’t you? Just like yourin the Basin, Mo to recover him I’d tried to reverse time to recover Jack

In the end, Mom had been forced to justaccept her loss I understood bravery in battle and dying; I now understood true pain But I couldn’t wrap