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Marrow and Marigold
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Veska checked her burial ledger by name and date. The silent rib belonged to a young baker named Toll Hessen, buried six days ago. The ledger said he died of plague. But the bone said he had not. She pulled on her coat and walked through the dark to the Hessen house to ask his family the truth.
The Hessen house was dark and empty, the door hanging open, food still on the table. A neighbor leaned from a window. "They ran in the night," she hissed. "A tall woman came asking about the baker's bones the day before." Veska set out after the family and found them hiding in a barn, ready at last to name the man who killed their son.
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