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Mercy and Wards · Book 1, Part 4, Chapter 3 of The Monk & The Witch, by Fred Potvin.

Winter settles over Candlekeep, and Maeril and Rishi choose to stay. Through cold, letters home, useful work, and patient restraint, the closed Emerald Door slowly changes from refusal into a threshold waiting to open.

Scenes
00:00 Winter on the Western Walk
01:23 Choosing to Stay
03:34 Useful Work and a Closed Door
04:52 Letters from Lantern Hall
08:41 Making a Home at Candlekeep
11:34 A Place to Stop Running
12:41 The First Reader’s Summons
19:09 Together Before the Door

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