“It does,” Hannah assured him before she stuck the green stalk back in her mouth.

Hannah stayed inside with me the rest of the day. She spent most of it sucking on a cold stalk.

Once she was finally more comfortable, I brought up the inevitable conversation.

“You know what this means,” I said to her.

“Once your teeth are fully developed, you’re supposed to go out on your own.”

She pouted, “I don’t want to.”

see any other young women

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is considered…well, tacky, to fly too close to the mountain housing the

they tell you?” I

the places they had been. She asked questions and the other girls

my mother hasn’t been to them in so Long.

are petite.

and I

didn’t know

my father. My skin isn’t as tough as the other girls, so it’s a good thing. I didn’t think you would like

had paid attention to her, but Hannah had been sneaky. She explained how she washed off the blood and let the wounds

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