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Alcyan Ford twenty years earlier.For three days, nothing happened. Life almost returned to normal. The only difference was that while Deirane still went to the lake to fetch water, she went with her father. She had been afraid to go there alone since that fateful day less than a month earlier, and the massive presence of people with pitchforks reassured her. All the pleasure she felt in doing this chore was gone. She watched the bushes to see if her usual spy was still lurking around, but he was invisible. She no longer looked at herself in the water either. It wasn't her father's presence that prevented her from doing so; she didn't like what she had become. The sight of her face revolted her. She deliberately blurred the surface while drawing water to avoid seeing her reflection.
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