Chapter 11 What Larkin Knew
The root stopped talking.
Not because it was finished — I could feel it waiting, coiled in the walls and the water and the stone, patient as a held breath. It had said its piece. It had laid out the choice. Now it wanted to watch me make it.
Larkin's hand was still open between us.
Her eyes were ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Deer at Dawn
2. Chapter 2 What Mother Knows
3. Chapter 3 The Groundskeeper's Gaze
4. Chapter 4 The Sheriff's Wall
5. Chapter 5 The Rumor at the Diner
6. Chapter 6 Orion's Offer
7. Chapter 7 The Weight of Bones
8. Chapter 8 What the Dark Knows
9. Chapter 9 The Diary Grows Warm
10. Chapter 10 The Bottom of the Well
11. Chapter 11 What Larkin Knew
12. Chapter 12 The Names in the Water
13. Chapter 13 The Morning After
14. Chapter 14 The Woman in Grey
15. Chapter 15 The Letter
16. Chapter 16 The Facility
17. Chapter 17 The Offer
18. Chapter 18 Blood and Memory
19. Chapter 19 The Warden's Confession
20. Chapter 20 The Twelve
21. Chapter 21 The Waking
22. Chapter 22 The Road Home
23. Chapter 23 The Truth-Tellers
24. Chapter 24 The Uninvited
25. Chapter 25 Greyhearth
26. Chapter 26 The Book of Names
27. Chapter 27 The First Root
28. Chapter 28 The Twelve Names
29. Chapter 29 The Council
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