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She shot recurve, not compound, because recurve had no let-off and no mechanical advantage and no forgiveness, and she'd liked that about it, the idea that the only thing between her and the target was herself and how steady she could hold.
Her recurve was a secondhand Hoyt she'd bought off a retiring competitor at a tournament three years ago for two hundred dollars, the limbs resurfaced, the string replaced, the riser worn smooth in the grip where a hundred hands before hers had held it. She'd named it nothing, because naming a bow felt like naming a toothbrush, but she talked to it sometimes, in her head, on the line, the way shooters do, asking it to behave, and it mostly did, and when i