Max’s Reviews > The Night-Born > Status Update

“‘And here I be, stranger,’ she concluded her yarn, ‘and here’s the most precious thing I own.’
“She pulled out a little pouch of buckskin, worn on her neck like a locket, and opened it. And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quote of Thoreau. [...]”