He folds his hands inside his sleeves and turns toward the door, putting his back to her. “Your arrogance, Miss Rainier, knows no bounds. The council is to blame, for their barbaric decision to allow the dead to be cut apart and sewn back together instead of resting peacefully. One faithless Sentinel did nothing but leave us without someone who could quiet the ghosts.”

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“I’m sorry,” she says to the ghosts, stopping at the edge where the iron grass gives way to greenery. “I wish you had someone better.”

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Of course the end of the world has to come around now,when he’s a little over a year shy of forty, and not when he was twenty-two, had both eyes, and had never had so much as a hangover to slow him down.

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He has a warm coat and enough bread to last him the day, which is about how long he can be sure he’ll live, so he’s content. If he sees tomorrow, he’ll worry about providing for it then.

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Her fingers remain flesh; her coat is still wool. Whatever happened here is over now. All that remains is a village made of iron.

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As she approaches the forest, the pines whisper back to the ghosts. It sounds like she’s caught in a storm. It sounds like a warning.

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Berend knows this is Arden Geray, despite the absence of his face, because of the bullet hole in his chest. The tattered remains of a starched shirt help, but Berend put that hole there. He’d recognize it anywhere.

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“After everything, and considering the end of the world, you might as well call me Berend.”

Isabel takes this into consideration and decides that she won’t.

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