21 - A Pebble

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She knelt in the snow, still facing out towards the horizon. The first stars appeared and she lowered her eyes, afraid the dark would come before she finished remembering.

Her eyes fell on a smooth pebble, its dark grey surface covered in frost. Tentatively she reached out and plucked it from the snow.

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