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Safe return? She hadn’t known Oleander’s father was missing. That wasn’t news she’d be glad to share with Oleander. She still remembered the lost, lonely look on his face when she had left him. He had looked very young to be lead-anything, let alone lead healer in a pandemic.

She perked up in a different way at Yara’s words, surprise evident in her posture. “What do you mean on the other side of the Col? I was told he was here, in these woods.” Her well-trained diffident tone vanished for a moment. She was confused, mostly because she barely knew what was happening with this Blight, who was where. It wasn’t a great time to be living in the Armada.


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