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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter One: Blood is Blood

Old Gods of Appalachia

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Nadine's Bone Ring

Nadine's mamma had a simple ivory colored ring. It was hand carved from what looked like bone plain and adorned with only a few thin, curly lines that were probably much grander and clearer before her mother had worried it to death on her middle finger. When she was worried or distressed about anything, you'd catch her working it round and around on her fingers, staring up the window toward the mountains. Nadine never thought she'd want it. But seeing it now, with mamma fresh in the ground, it was like having a piece of her here with em.

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