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- Author: Rebecca Ross
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Magical Realism Fiction
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The Magic Still Gathers
A Grave Encounter
Spring had at last found the city of Oath, but even the flood of sunshine
couldn’t melt the frost in Iris Winnow’s bones. She knew someone was
following her as she walked through the bustle of Broad Street, over tram
tracks and scuffed cobblestones. She resisted the temptation to glance
behind, instead forcing her hands into the pockets of her trench coat as she
stepped over a row of weeds blooming from the pavement cracks.
The coat was only three days old and still smelled like the store Iris had
bought it from—a hint of rose perfume and complimentary black tea and
polished leather brogues—and the days were becoming too warm to truly
need it on her walks to and from work. But she found that she liked to have
the coat belted at her waist, as if it were armor.
She shivered as she wove through a crowd gathered at a bakery door,
hoping the person on her trail would lose sight of her in the tumult of
people purchasing their morning buns. She wondered if it was Forest
following her. The image instantly made her feel better, and then
profoundly worse. He had done such a thing before, back in Avalon Bluff.
In fact, he had been watching her for days, waiting for the right moment to
appear, and it still made her feel ill to remember.
Iris couldn’t resist a moment longer. She cast a glance over her shoulder,
the wind pulling a few tendrils of hair across her face.
There was no sight of her older brother, but then again he was no longer
the swift-laughing, affectionate person he had been before he enlisted for
Enva’s cause. No, the war had left its marks on him, had taught him how to
maneuver in the trenches and fire a gun and sneak across dead man’s zone
into enemy territory. The war had deeply wounded him. And if Forest was
following her this morning, then it meant he still doubted her.
He continued to believe she would run, leaving him and Oath behind
without a word of farewell.
I want you to trust me, Forest.
Iris swallowed and hurried on her way. She passed the building she had
once worked in, where the Oath Gazette sat alight on the fifth floor, the
place where she had first met Roman and thought him an arrogant upperclass snob. The place where her words had first found their place in the
newspaper, where she had discovered the thrill of reporting.
Iris walked past those heavy glass doors, tracing the ring on her fourth
finger. She turned onto a quieter side street, listening for the sound of
footfalls behind her. There was too much din from the tram bells and the
hawkers on street corners, though, and she dared to take a shortcut through
an alley.
It was a strange, haphazard path that most vehicles couldn’t navigate
without knocking a side mirror loose. A cobbled street where magic could
still be felt when passing over certain thresholds or glancing at the shine of
windows or stepping through a shadow that never faded, no matter how
brilliant the sun burned overhead.
But Iris paused when she saw words painted in bold red paint on a white
brick wall.
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