Cricket Creek Bog i.xi : who was ground down in the end

Maegi stepped back as he stepped forward, growling. I don't know, she insisted, eyes widening, then narrowing again.

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I don't know, she repeated, the slightest bit calmer, this time. We went t-through the tunnels to get her out. It put us in some forest. I didn't see her after that. A sigh left her, deep and tremulous; it rattled her chest like a cough. She was alive when I last saw her. I swear on every god, she was alive.

Now she was becoming frantic again with the need to explain herself, like she had been with the golden woman. We didn't take her, Mou did, Maegi explained. Blackfeather is innocent. Whatever crimes we committed in the past are--we're not like that, anymore. We keep to ourselves. And now Mou is dead.

She cast him a baleful look. Mou is dead, but your sister lives.