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Rava held very still. She had known what not having the long-term
memory would mean to Cordelia, but she hadn’t thought about what it
meant for her family.
Cordelia was their family’s continuity, their historical connection to
their past. Some families made documentaries. Some kept journals. Her
family had chosen to record and manage their voyage on the
generation ship with Cordelia.Worse, she supervised all their records.
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Eva tossed her backpack on the picnic bench and hollered to Giancarlo.
“I’m heading to the creek to cut some willow branches for the
summoning spell.”
The historian strode up the hill from their car with his gear slung over
one shoulder. “You could bring them with you, you know.” His English
was perfect, only the rolled R and lilt betraying his origins. Well, that
and the way he moved like a runway model straight from Milan.
She snapped a photo of the area with her phone and texted it to her
assistant, Sandra. File under Cherokee Project. Sometimes the
vegetation changed after a Fae visited, depending on the magic they
used.
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