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The Magic
The magic could restore youth to the old and bring the dead back to life: ancient, dangerous, powerful magic.
It had been a complicated and difficult magic to make and control. Just the ingredients required had, at first, been enough to discourage him. A perfect snowflake! The laughter of a child! A summer afternoon! The alchemist had never seen a spell quite like it.
And then, of course, there was the most difficult ingredient of all to procure: pure sunlight (1 cup).
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The Willow Tree
At the bottom of the gentle, sloping hill was the Red House, and beyond that was the pond, reflecting the flat hard silver sky and the weeping willow tree. Liesl was falling, flailing, as images came rushing back: the smell of new damp earth and wild gras
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