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The canoe scraped a submerged log. For a moment everything stopped: the buzz of insects, the small calls of birds, the distant hum of a highway—then resumed as if we had slipped between the ticking of a clock. She reached into the water and brought up a handful of silt. Between her palms a little city of washed seeds lay, black and perfect.

"Don't tell anyone," she told me now, and that made me think of late-night conversations hidden beneath quilts, of hands warmed by hands, of promises that smelled faintly of rosemary and iron. i raf you big sister is a witch new

We cut the current by the ruined mill and drifted beneath sycamores. She reached out and touched the bark, whispering a name I didn't know; the tree's leaves sighed and loosened a shower of tiny, paper moths that glowed briefly and then dissolved into river smoke. I should have been startled, but I only laughed until the sound made the water tremble. The canoe scraped a submerged log