What is recorded here
Marianne and I climbed the ridge at Doolaig South to touch the fortress wall. Under our hands the earth warmed like breath, and I remembered the chamber where Marianne first became human. We had carried chamber fire into that ridge, and the fortress had returned the flame.
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