For Mara, the change was quieter. She found Avel in the way a person discovers an old trail: not the man himself but the tracks of him made useful. She walked to the river that had lodged in the photograph and found the curve of bank where he had sat, the rusted nail in a dock, the voice of a boatman who remembered an extra passenger once. She heard the name of him on more than one labored tongue in choir practice and, because she had taught people to keep names, those tongues did not allow the grove to hollow them out. The town could say Avel Kest without the word fraying.
Curses always have a source. It might be a physical object, like the "strange device" at the top of Renwall Tower in The Curse of Mizzling Grove . It could be a person, like the "cardboard witch" in the short story. Or it might be a location, such as the "cursed roots" in Kingdoms of Amalur . Your task is to locate the epicenter of the curse. be grove cursed new
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