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What the Briar Remembers

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"Tell me how to stop it," Mirren said. Aldous gripped her hand. "The bell calls the dead. To silence it, you must give it a name — the name of the man who started the war. It's carved on a stone under the hawthorn root, right where you found me. Dig there. But say it wrong and the whole army marches."

Mirren dug too fast and read the worn carving wrong. She spoke a name that was never a soldier's, and the bell shrieked. Every grave in the Briar burst at once. The last thing she saw was Aldous, mouthing "I'm sorry," as the grey army rose around her and the long march began.

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