Inside lay a single seed the color of rust. It shimmered like a memory, dense and impossible. Marcellus knew without knowing why that this seed remembered a grove that had been drowned centuries ago to make way for a harbor. If planted, it would call roots back to the surface; if left in its box, it would feed no one. Marcellus thought of the village and the sea and the rights and wrongs of bringing back what had been taken.
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On every map there's a margin. On every margin there are scribbles. On Puck's map, in a tiny hand, someone had added one more line: "Leave one promise unspent. It keeps the stones quiet." Inside lay a single seed the color of rust