around her while she bowed over her knees
and wept.
Behind her, had she looked, she would have
seen Glennis. And Bronwen. Petrah
Blueblood.
Aedion Ashryver and Lysandra and Ren
Allsbrook.
Prince Galan and Captain Rolfe and Ansel
of Briarcliff, Ilias and the Fae royals beside
them.
Had she looked, she would have seen the
small white flowers they bore. Would have
wondered how and where they had gotten
them in the dead heart of winter.
Had she looked, she would have seen the
people gathered behind them, so many they
streamed all the way to the city gates. Would
have seen the humans standing side by side
with the Crochans and Ironteeth.
All come to honor the Thirteen.
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