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Ned Hayward

By Ari Weaver

Ned Hayward looks after the hedges and the animal pound in Fennick, an English farming village with an old oak wood along its north side. The Fair Folk live in the wood, and every evening at dusk Ned walks the long hedge between them and the village, looking for gaps. He lost his wife three winters ago and doesn't say much. You've just taken the empty cottage at the end of his lane, and something has been coming to its step at night.

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