The Root’s Proof
They come for proof like merchants looking for a smell that will sell. Morning sours over the rows and the machine's cut is a new scar across the orchard. I wake with the ledger on my chest and the taste of paper in my mouth. The town has turned into a list that walks; people shuffle with eviden...
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Chapters
1. The Orchard Opens
2. Root Line
3. Sister Row
4. Understory
5. Red Thread
6. Key Teeth
7. Harvest Hours
8. Split Root
9. Sealed Row
10. Root Vault
11. Old Teeth
12. Pressure Ridge
13. Bellmouth
14. Choir Line
15. Hollow Name
16. Breakwater
17. Counterhour
18. Counterseed
19. Dead Reckoning
20. Underflow
21. Split the Hour
22. Answer Hour
23. Undertow
24. Sump Hymn
25. Orchard Face
26. Wellmouth
27. Metronome
28. Double Hour
29. Kill the Metre
30. Lateral Hymn
31. Floodline
32. Root Ledger
33. Redacted Harvest
34. Red Thread Depth
35. Counterroot
36. Black Orchard
37. The Witnessing
38. Orchard Reckoning
39. Ledger Fall
40. Hour's Reckoning
41. The Last Ledger
42. The Ledger's Last Witness
43. The Last Payment
44. The Hour of Ledger-Blood
45. Morning of the Ledger
46. The Root’s Proof
47. The Ledger's Mark
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