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The journey was faster than before; the gold flowers lined the road, pulsing with light that seemed to guide them, and the watcher's attention was focused with an intensity that made the air shimmer.
The relay site had changed. The great gold flower at the center of the garden had grown larger than ever, its petals the size of carriage wheels, its light warm enough to melt the frost for a hundred paces in every direction. But beneath that light, there was something else—a shadow, a coldness, the particular quality of loneliness that the watcher had cut away.
"The ghost is here," Elara said. "I can feel it."
Clara extended her anchor sense. The ghost was not a presence, not like the watcher.
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