Eliece asked this question about
The Dictionary of Lost Words:
What exactly had happened to Esme's hand? It seems to have been burned, but I couldn't find how that happened.
Bonnie
In the Prologue, second page. Esme was trying to retrieve the scrap of paper with her mother’s name (lily), thrown into the fire by her father.
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