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That is how he has found himself here.

That is why he is hanging here in these rosebushes, now. Because he looked at Edmund and thought: I have to stop being a saint.

Because he remembered Fenris, dimly dreamt it, and thought: I have to stop being a saint.

It was not his best idea ever.

Now he is hanging in the rose-bushes. Now he is pinned there, like the victim of some shrike. Now there are flowers blooming all around him, bursting into life, red and —

He opens his eyes.

— dead white.

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