Chapter nine
Happiness
(Estate of Naer, Standing Five)Did you search her mind, Moonlight? Does she have no memory of her fall?
No, Geya. I can find no trace. But I still believe someone must have helped her.
Who?
I do not know. If Dai were here...
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Katkin’s eyes flew open as the impact with the privet sent her bouncing down to the ground. She crawled into the space behind the hedge, and took a quick survey to see if she had suffered any injury in her terrifying fall from the third floor. Her tongue found a place on her cheek where she must have bitten down when she landed. It was rough and sore. Miraculously, it seemed she had escaped with that minor wound and just a few other scratches, though she could not quite figure out how she had managed to fall in the hedge, which gre
