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The Scarecrow Counts to Twelve
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The scarecrow lets go and points its arm out across the valley, but this time at no house at all, just the empty road. "Walk it," it whispers. "Bring back what you find and the count resets to zero." Wren steps onto the road, alone, with the silent field at their back.
Wren follows the road until it ends at a barn no one talks about. Inside stand the eleven missing families, frozen mid-step, covered in dust, like time stopped the day they left. Wren touches the nearest one and it gasps awake. One by one, Wren wakes them all, and they walk home together as the crows finally sing.
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