there are many benefits to our loyalty. For one thing, we don’t die. Well, our human forms die, but after seven days, we return in animal form to wait until the master is strong enough to rise again, and we’ll be restored to our former glory.” I think of the black clouds of ravens always circling the skies of Solstice. I think of the red fox, white cat, and blue morpho butterfly, all so strangely intelligent. I think of all the empty Blackthorn graves at Pinecrest, and my grandmother’s strangely well-preserved, disappearing corpse, and how Bea dreamt of being a big black dog. Is that what
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