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You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way.  \nCopyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify [the publisher at:](the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy)[ us.macmillanusa.com/piracy](the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy).  \nO love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.  \n—Alfred, Lord Tennyson  \nA sad tale’s best for winter.  \n—William Shakespeare  \n1  \nWas she dead?  \nShe felt like a ghost, untethered and insubstantial.  \nWas she floating?  \nEverything around her seemed blurred, faded, and unimportant. Maybe she was blurred, faded, and unimportant while the world moved around her full of color she couldn’t see, sound she couldn’t hear.  \nIf so, death was the same as life. What difference did it make, really? Unless   unless. Could death be a kind of freedom?  \nBut freedom from what?  \nSomething, something scraped like tiny fingernails on the edges of her mind—a need to run, to hide. But why? Why?  \nWhat was the point of it all? What would death need to hide from? The dead could sleep, couldn’t they? Just sleep, sleep, sleep.  \nAnd yet, she felt as if she’d just woken, still groggy and vague.  \nShe wandered. Puzzled, yes, but detached, and wondering if she’d reached heaven or hell. There was something oddly familiar about the faded colors and blurry shapes here. Colors suddenly so strong they hurt her eyes, shapes so sharp they might slice and gash.  \nThen they faded and blurred again, and there was comfort in that. Odd, quiet comfort.  \nBut … she caught a scent, yes, yes, the rich and funereal scent of lilies. Blood. Lilies and blood, surely that meant death.  \nShe should just lie down, lie down and sleep. Lie down and just go away. 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