Sanctuary Night’s exactly what it says. Everyone lines up before Atticus and he reconfirms their Sanctuary: their right to live in Safe. Nobody’s ever turned away, except for Corner eight years back when it all came out about Jonah and the killing, and after that it couldn’t have stayed and share...
I led them to the riverbank through a damaged, changed world. Branches were down all over the orchard, seared into black charcoal. The fields were sickly spotted, stained with burns and churned mud; they rustled ominously as we passed. Past them, the hay barn sang its rattling hymns. Tin shingles...