The Moon Goddess's third approach was nothing like the first two.The first had been warmth in the dreamwalking space , the offer itself, direct and sincere and refused. The second had come sideways, through the people she loved, using their genuine fears as entry points and expecting her not to notice the angle of entry. She had noticed. They had caught both of them.The third approach was a child.She appeared at Valdris's outer gate on a morning in early spring , small, perhaps ten years old, alone, wearing the travel clothes of someone who had been walking for several days and had the particular stillness of a child who has learned to be very quiet because being loud has never produced good outcomes. The gate guard found her sitting on the stone step outside the postern gate and came to find Ivory specifically, not Haela, not Oryn , which told her the guard had noticed something about the child that suggested she was not an ordinary lost traveler.She went to the gate.The girl lo
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