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Autor: Naya
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CHAPTER 100

JULIA

I smell the bonfire before I see it.

Wood smoke and something underneath it, sharper, that makes the back of my neck prickle before I've even turned the corner onto the field. I tell myself it's the cold. I turn the corner.

There are maybe sixty people here. Alicia said some people, casual, just a bonfire. Sixty people arranged around a fire that has been burning long enough to be serious, to have settled into its own heat, is not some people. It's a gathering. It has a struct
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