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Miriam looked at us both steadily. Then Sarah steps up and hits the cowering figure. “Nothing you need worry about,” Clausen said. Wolves and panthers would do a better job, my father said; but the farmers didn’t like them.

“I’m bound upriver, on a special assignment. But here’s the thing: it’s not the end of the world. ”SIXThe trail leaps out of the marsh and flattens, fading into a lawn of clipped brown grass. All it would take, she told him, was a moment of inattention.