Metronome

The mask walks slowly, each step a permission the ground is hungry to obey. The brass key ticks against its palm, metal on bone, a little clock the rows lean toward. My boot stays on my name. The lid pushes back, testing me like a bull testing fence. Caleb slides left, Rowan right, our weight ma...

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Chapters

1. The Orchard Opens

2. Root Line

3. Sister Row

4. Understory

5. Red Thread

6. Key Teeth

7. Harvest Hours

8. Split Root

9. Sealed Row

10. Root Vault

11. Old Teeth

12. Pressure Ridge

13. Bellmouth

14. Choir Line

15. Hollow Name

16. Breakwater

17. Counterhour

18. Counterseed

19. Dead Reckoning

20. Underflow

21. Split the Hour

22. Answer Hour

23. Undertow

24. Sump Hymn

25. Orchard Face

26. Wellmouth

27. Metronome

28. Double Hour

29. Kill the Metre

30. Lateral Hymn

31. Floodline

32. Root Ledger

33. Redacted Harvest

34. Red Thread Depth

35. Counterroot

36. Black Orchard

37. The Witnessing

38. Orchard Reckoning

39. Ledger Fall

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