And so the thing that broke it was not a lawyer or a court or even the recording.

It was one plain sentence, said out loud where others could hear it: this is true, and I am done pretending it isn’t. The moment that sentence existed in the world, the people who had been waiting for it their whole lives could finally find each other, and once they found each other, the spell simply could not be cast anymore.

Chapter 8 — The Children Stay Safe

I need to say clearly, because it is the most important thing in this account: the children were never harmed.

Not my daughter, not Lowell’s son, not any of them.

That is not luck.