ritual
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A nurse returns from wartime France to bury her father in a Shropshire village, where a children’s singing game on the green carries instructions she has been following all her life.
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Chosen, blessed, sky-called. The village sings Pegwyche’s name as she rises toward the floating Rookery of Ninelast. But going-up is not a marriage. Mister Talp, the blind mole groundskeeper, knows what it really is.