“Let’s give the Forest what it wants,” she said, suddenly girlishly excited, “so it can give us what we want.” But now he didn’t even know if she was truly excited, or if she was being excited just for his benefit. He asked, “What do we want again?” “Everything,” she said. The Barns and Marie Lynch and Declan had been enough for Niall. But he could feel he was in danger of losing one of those things. He asked, “What does it want?” “Greywaren.” Why did it have a name already? Had it done this before? What did it mean if it had? He didn’t want to know any of the answers. But he loved her and he
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