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Marrow and Marigold
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Veska gathered every silent bone from her yard and lined them up. Eleven so far, all marked, all called plague in her ledger. She realized with horror that she had buried each one herself, signing off on lies without knowing it. Whoever did this had been using her name and her flowers as cover.
Veska set a trap. She let it be known around town that she had found a way to make silent bones speak again. That night a hooded figure broke into her workshop to smash the evidence, and Veska was waiting with a lamp and the magistrate's two guards. They caught the killer's own hired hand red-handed.
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