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Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal5/26/2023 The young soldier in front of her had been with the 9th Scottish Division, 26th Brigade, the Black Watch. The fighting at the Somme had kept the entire Spirit Corps working extra shifts trying to take reports from the dead, and the air was frigid with souls. Caught in those memories, scent and colour floated with thick emotion. Past events brushed her in eddies of remembrance. Around them, the currents of the spirit world swirled in slow spirals. It wouldn’t be fair to force Helen to assume control of the circle early. Even with a full circle supporting her, she ached with fatigue, and if she weren’t careful that would pull her back into her body. She tried to hold that awareness at bay, along with the dozens of other spirit circles working for the British Army. Ginger Stuyvesant had a dim awareness of her body repeating the soldier’s words to the team’s stenographer. “The Germans were flanking us at Delville Wood when I died.”
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