As Mara crossed the square, shadows rose to meet her — not the lazy, simple silhouettes of bystanders but faces in the dark, stitched from smoke and the long, patient hunger of wolves. They did not speak. Instead, they pressed themselves into the edges of her vision, testing the borders of what her eyes would accept. Her breath came quick; each inhalation filled her with images she hadn't invited: a child's laughter turned brittle, a pie left to blacken on a sill, a husband walking away down a lane that lengthened into the sea.
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