Epilogue - Penelope's POVOne year later."Careful," Kael said, steadying my elbow as I climbed the depot steps, considerably slower now than I had been the day I first walked up that ridge toward a quarry full of danger. "You are not exactly built for balance these days.""I am seven months pregnant, Kael, not incapable.""I did not say incapable," he said, grinning. "I said not built for balance. There is a difference."Around us, the depot yard had transformed once more, this time for a far gentler occasion, the academy's second cohort graduation, families gathered beneath the same string lights that had once lit our wedding.Rosalind stood near the front of the assembled graduates, her Ashcombe pendant catching the afternoon light, pride and nerves fighting for space on her face as she waited for her name to be called."She is going to be extraordinary," Kael murmured, watching her."She already is," I said.Thomas and Adaline sat together near the front, Thomas's hand resting pro
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