"If I tell a story, will you listen to it?"

It's the most important tale fourteen-year-old Juniper Adams will ever tell. If she tells it well enough, she may be allowed to live, but not because her kidnapper has any appreciation for storytelling. He is not the monster she must convince. The monster she must convince is a watcher—a black witch moth clinging to the walls of her concrete prison, a creature who can erase entire events by simply refusing to watch them.

The monster she must convince is me. The event she wants me to erase is her inevitable murder, but the universe demands a sacrifice. A balance must be restored, and only her death will restore it. I know the lesson I'm meant to learn is that her life was never mine to save. I only have one question. What will it cost me to steal it?

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