Chapter 10 The Unraveling

• The weeks that followed felt, to Thalia, like a strange kind of coincidence that refused to stop happening.
• She ran into Gideon at the market three days after the storm, and told herself it meant nothing, that a small town simply guaranteed overlapping paths.
• She saw him again at the edge of the woods the following week, chopping wood for the widow Marsh, and told herself that meant nothing either, that plenty of drifters picked up odd jobs in towns like this one.