LIVETHE GLASS
HARBOURELENA HART
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Elena Hart
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Chapter 12Draft 6
The Glass Harbour
The tide had gone out so far that the harbour seemed to have forgotten the sea entirely.
Mara stood at the window with the unopened letter pressed flat beneath her palm.
She had rewritten the sentence five times. This was the first version that sounded like the truth.
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