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Chapter 5: In the Owl's Debt

Shade moved ahead of the others with the silent, practiced ease of someone who’d spent most of his adult life trusting the forest only on its best days. Pip trailed close behind him, alert but quiet, matching his pace step for step. The deer trail curved around a fallen cedar before widening into a shallow depression between two lichen-covered boulders. Shade stopped. Pip froze immediately…