Chapter 51

What Toma Wanted

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Vesna let them open the fourth door in the spring, and she was right about all of it.

Toma had been a soldier. He came out of the dark and was on his feet in four days, which frightened Ferrin more than anything else in that house, and by the ninth day he could speak, and on the eleventh he asked to be taken up to the yard to see the wall that Eira had brought down.