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In the village of Thornset, there is a rule that every child learns before they learn their letters: do not speak to the ravens. The ravens that nest in the old watchtower have been there longer than the oldest grandparent can remember, and the elders say that speaking to them is an invitation to trouble that comes in shapes you will not recognize until it is already inside your house. Twelve-year-old Laret Finn broke this rule not out of bravery or rebellion but out of loneliness, because she was the kind of lonely that comes from being surrounded by people who look at you and see something they cannot quite name. She spoke to the largest raven on a cold October morning. It spoke back. And the trouble it invited was larger and stranger and more necessary than any elder had ever described, because this particular trouble was not a curse or a calamity. It was a war that had been waiting a hundred years for someone with the right kind of ears to hear what the ravens says