I hold the Watcher necklace tightly in my hand, pressing the talon into my palm to distract me from the tears filling my eyes.
“One more thing, Oni. Come with me.” She leads me towards the village, stopping short at the outskirts.
“You’ve all done a good job,” I tell her. “It looks like new.”
She smiles. “Yes, it does, doesn’t it? So we thought the town needed a strong, new name to reflect that.” She gestures to the wooden signpost, recently and beautiful carved. Grinning, I read the name of her village, our village: Ogreton.
I’m so happy I forget to hide my teeth. She doesn’t even flinch.
J.G. Formato is a writer and elementary school teacher from North Florida. She lives in a little house by the woods with her amazing husband and their four wonderful children. You can find her work in Youth Imagination Magazine, freeze frame fiction, and Trysts of Fate.
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