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Chapter 164: A Difficulty

Auteur: Clare
last update Date de publication: 2026-05-04 14:25:56

In the third week of June there was a difficulty.

It did not arise dramatically. The difficulties in the seventh year did not arrive with the weight of the difficulties in the earlier years—the early collisions, the walls, the things that had required the clearing conversations and the sustained work of two men who were not naturally easy with each other learning to be. The seventh year's difficulties were smaller and, in some ways, more specific: the difficulties of people who had cleared the
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