Aurelia's POV.I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this.We walked through and the settlement hit me all at once, the noise and the warmth and the sheer aliveness of it after days of that pressing wrong silence. Fires burning between buildings. People everywhere, all kinds. Ancient stone walls with newer structures built directly against them, wood and rope and salvaged material filling the gaps, the whole place stitched together, It shouldn't have worked. Somehow it did.I stood there with my mouth probably open and just looked at it."Close your mouth." Torin said, from beside me."I'm not…" I started."You are." Rylan said.He was right, I closed my mouth.The woman who had let us in was a few steps ahead, and I jogged slightly to catch up with her. "Thank you." I said, "for letting us through. You didn't have to do that."She glanced sideways at me as she walked, and up close the sharpness in her eyes was even more noticeable. "Why did you?" Kaelen said, coming up on
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