Chapter 6
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I crouched in the underbrush and watched Sage as she went up the trail.
It led to the small waterfall a half mile from the Castleton Estate, and it was one of her favorites.
Her hands had floated over bushes and grasses, plucking samples as she went, and she hummed softly to herself as she walked, leaning to examine a plant and poking at it with her fragile fingers.
She had hair like autumn leaves, sparking and crackling like a campfire. Maybe I’d cut it all off and keep it in a jar.
When she walked by, she didn’t even see me. Smiling to myself, I rocked a little on my heels and watched until she’d walked back down again, passing so close to me that I could smell her shampoo.
She was so pretty with her freckles, and she always smiled at me when she saw me in town, not even afraid.
I couldn’t decide how I felt about that. She should be afraid of so many things.