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Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six
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The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening EndsMona's POVCassian's youngest boy came at me across the grass at a dead run with a wooden wolf toy in his fist, and he was laughing.His name was Hal. He was three years old. He had his father's serious eyes and his mother Yara's easy laugh, and the two of them together made him the kind of small child who could switch from grave to joyful in one breath. He barreled up to my chair and thrust the wooden wolf at my knee. He said, breathless, "Grandma. This wolf. This wolf is tired." I said, gently, "Is he." Hal said, "He walked all the way from the fountain." I said, "That is very far." Hal said, "For a wolf." I said, "Especially for a wolf." He climbed up my knees. He sat down on the grass by my feet and laid the wooden wolf on its side. He patted its wooden head with great seriousness and said to it, "You rest now." Then he looked up at me and said, "Grandma. Do wolves get tired?" I said, "Yes, little bear. They do." He said, "Even the big ones?" I sa
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Mona's POVI got out of bed at first light the morning after we buried Sophie, and I did not tell anyone I was going out.I dressed slowly. My hands were stiff from the cold. I pulled on the long grey walking cloak Derek had given me on my sixtieth birthday — heavy wool, deep pockets, a hood that fell all the way to my eyebrows if I wanted it to. I did not want the hood. I put my hair back with a plain leather cord. I laced my boots. I stood in front of the small mirror on my washstand for a moment and I looked at the old woman looking back at me. Seventy. My hair was the color of ash now. There were lines at my mouth I had not earned in a single year. My eyes were the same eyes I had had at seventeen in a Silver Moon kitchen, and I could not decide whether that was a kindness or a cruelty. I turned away from the mirror. I picked up Derek's wooden comb from the small table by the fireplace where it had lived for years. I put it in the deep pocket of my cloak. I do not know why. I only
The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight
Mona's POVI walked the three lanes to Sophie's house on the morning of my seventieth birthday, and I found her before she found me.That is the sentence I have kept for two years now. That is the sentence that holds the whole shape of it. She had not come to my kitchen for breakfast that morning, which was strange. Sophie had come to my kitchen every seventh morning for two years, and every morning-morning during Derek's fever, and every morning of the year after. She was never late. So when the sun was already up over Nightshade's rooftops and she had not come, I put on my shawl. I walked. I did not run. My knees would not let me run. But I walked as fast as an old woman who is trying not to be afraid can walk. The three lanes have never been so long. I passed the well. I passed the bakers already at work. I passed a small yellow dog who followed me for half a lane and then decided I was going somewhere too sad and turned back. I did not knock at her door. I had not knocked at her d
The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six
Mona's POVVesna's letter came in early spring, and it was the first thing that had made me set down my tea in months.The paper was plain. Her handwriting had settled into the small careful shape it had taken on years ago. Mona. Would you allow me to come and see you? Not for school business. Not for the councillor. Only for tea. It has been a long time. I understand if you say no. — V. I read it twice. Sophie was sitting across from me at my kitchen table, buttering bread. She saw my face. She said, "Who is it from?" I said, "Vesna." Sophie set the knife down. She said, "What does she want?" I said, "Tea." Sophie was quiet a moment. Then she said, small, "You should say yes." I said, "I know I should." She said, "Are you going to?" I said, "Yes." I did not need to think about it long. I owed Vesna a cup of tea. Not because she deserved it — deserving was not the shape of what was between us. Because we had built something over the years, quietly, letter by letter, small step by smal
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Mona's POVI laughed for the first time on a Wednesday, and I did not even notice I had done it until the sound was already out of me.Little Mona had come for her weekly lesson. She was fourteen now, tall for her age, all knees and elbows the way girls are at that age when the body has decided to grow faster than the mind can keep up with. She had been working, for three weeks, on a small trick she had invented for herself — a floating flame in the shape of a bird. It was harder than it looked. Fire wants to be a round thing. Making it into a bird takes patience and a strange kind of attention. That Wednesday she came in and dropped her satchel and said, without a hello, "Grandma. Watch." She lifted her palm. She breathed. A small yellow flame came up. She narrowed her eyes. The flame stretched. It thinned. It grew two small pointed wings. It sat on her palm like a tiny burning sparrow. She looked at me, triumphant. She said, "I made a bird." And then, because she was fourteen and co
The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four
Mona's POVThe morning after the funeral, I woke up and I reached for him before I remembered, and that was how the first year began.My hand crossed the sheet on his side of the bed. My hand met linen and nothing else. I lay very still for a long time with my palm pressed to the cool empty place where his shoulder used to be. The sun was already up. The sun should have known. The birds outside the window should have known. Nothing outside had noticed. That was the cruelest thing about that first morning — the world had not adjusted itself to match the size of what was missing. I sat up slowly. I did not weep. My eyes had been dry since I had cried into Rose's shoulder at the graveside. I got out of bed. I dressed myself. I combed my hair with the wooden comb — his comb, still on the washstand — and then I sat with it in my hand for a moment, holding the small chip Cassian had put in it as a toddler, and I did not put it down. I carried it into the sitting room. I set it on the small
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The fire took everything.My name. My body. My memories. All dissolved into white-hot nothing that burned beyond pain, beyond thought, beyond existence itself. I was a scream without a throat, terror without a mind, agony without flesh.Then Derek's voice, not heard but felt: *I'm here.*His presenc
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Mona's POVThe Shadow Walker moved faster than thought. One moment it stood at the edge of the circle, the next its claws were inches from my throat.Derek's wolf form slammed into it mid-leap, but passed right through as if the creature was made of smoke. The Shadow Walker solidified just in time
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