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For hours, I read, and the words seemed to soothe her Her eyes closed, and she lost herself in tales of lorious victories," Gran’s lips would curve and her thin fingers would clench

I read until her chest no longer rose and fell My grandmother was at peace

For soe Gran had updated the chronicles The first entry:

The cunning Euiled Death, until all he can see is her He reunites an Arcana with her Tarasova, courting his own destruction

Another entry:

They are h they have tricked her, I see clearly She won’t do what’s necessary, so I have put the end into motion

She can never be with him She has no idea what Life and Death become

What had shehad she put into ible, her handwriting declining as much as her mental state:

I left you clues, Evie Nothing is as it seeent The ro--

She’d never finished the last word Mad ra in code? Filled with unease, I closed the book and laid it under her hands

Aric entered, his concerned gaze flickering over randmother had wanted ainst my forehead "Come" He ushered me out of the room and back to his study This tiriain Another down the hatch

He guided ainst his wars in the back of the chronicles" I told hi to hurt the people here?"

"There’s very little that’s vulnerable," he assured h What if ht be in shock I can’t think of another person who has lost as much as you have in such a short span In just four hundred days or so"

"I figured out that I would have attended a funeral about every month," I said "I know I should have been with her ht"

He rubbed ood memories of her"

I would I wished these last feeeks would fade to a blur--cohter as we played hide-and-seek in the cane

"What do we do now?" I asked,lost

"You will pick a place on the "

I sat up to face him "Bury her here? At your hoether "At our hos" God, he was a wonderful s she’d said about him