“Why in the world do you want to be a magician, if that’s the life they lead?” he asked me after one particularly bloodcurdling story about an angry mother.

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By the time they snap her fifth finger, she doesn't have the strength to struggle anymore.

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He slices through the thong on the cover of the fish basket. Hundreds of sunken eyes stare accusingly up at him.

Safy laughed despite herself. "Unnatural? Of course I am."

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It should be spring, the crows' dead eyes protest. It should be spring.

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If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.

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Only then did I discover two alarming facts about my own person: I was naked beneath the scratchy blanket, and my wrists and ankles were bound in chains.

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The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on.

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I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.

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