GIVEN TO THE WRONG ALPHA
Just a collar, hanging open, and carved inside the hollow, words in the old tongue.
Eli reads them, voice breaking. “‘For the child who will choose.’”
Me. Or Jonah. Or Lyana. Or any of them.
Silas touches the carving. The iron under his fingers turns warm. Then soft. Then wood.
The final iron root becomes a real root, green and living, and dives deep, connecting to the other eleven.
The circle is complete.
We climb out, covered in rust dust, to a different world.
The National Mall is gone. In its place — a grove. Twelve young Trees in a perfect circle around the central one, which is already taller than the Monument was. Silver leaves chiming. People — D.C. staffers, soldiers, families who h
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