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The Debt of Hollow Bells
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Maren backed away from the hovering words and ran for the chapel, bolting the heavy door behind her. For one breath there was silence. Then every candle blew out at once, and in the dark the same calm voice spoke right beside her ear. "There is no door between us. There never was."
Maren stopped running. In the black chapel she turned toward the voice and stood her ground. "If there's no door, then talk to me. What do you want?" "A grave. The one you owe me," it said. "Dig it, and we are even." She lit her lantern with shaking hands and went out to the yard. One grave, one last bell, and the voice was gone for good. Her dead could finally rest.
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