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    Thin bones cracked between her teeth, their scant marrow dancing around her tongue. Raphael's forced smile warped into a look of clear concern. An arm moved towards her and its marrow would be incomparable, fatty and smooth like silk on the skin. To feel th—e hand touched her shoulder and she heard his words.

    The Wandering Beast of rumor and legend stalks the wilderness of Leicester. On his way home from a job in the aftermath of the war, Raphael encounters it, but discovers quickly that the beast is an old friend—Marianne. With their lives in each other's hands, they set off to find aid for Marianne, wherever they might find it. All around them are the fresh scars of the war—reminders of the past, and traces of a future that never was.

    Set after the end of Crimson Flower. Can be read independently of other works in the series.

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