Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

To ask for miracles, or intercessions, or simply pave the way into God’s grace. She hears Andrés rise, his weight crossing toward her, and for the first time she feels her boldness slip, tells herself it’s just the strange nature of the day, which began in one place and is ending in another. But out there, it could.” She stares into the fire, and Alice can see the future taking shape in Catty’s mind, the way it plays like light across her face. At last she gives up, and screws the tiny gold cap back onto the vial, and what’s left of the dirt inside, shoving the pendant back beneath her shirt.