Seraphina's POV "Good."We stood there for a while and the hot iron cooled in the grass around us and the smoke drifted through the trees and by the time we walked back to the trail the camp was nothing but lumps of metal and scorched earth and it would never hold anyone again.We reached Willowbrook in the afternoon. The foundations came first, stone walls with no houses on them, blackened and crumbling with grass and wildflowers growing up through the cracks. The forest had started reclaiming what was left, saplings pushing through collapsed roofs and ivy climbing the standing walls.The well was still standing in what used to be the square. I stopped in front of it and pulled up a bucket and drank and the water tasted the same, clean and cold and faintly sweet from the limestone underneath."Maren lived there," I said, pointing to a foundation on the eastern edge with a collapsed chimney and a stone path. "The kitchen was on the left. She'd stand at the window mixing herbs and wat
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