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The Grail Fables → Volume Two

Volume II · Volume Two

Bright Growing · The Almost Country

The second volume, for readers of 8–12 — 10 × 8 landscape books, stories with room to breathe. Two collections: growing into what you will become, and the country just short of arriving, where almost is a place you can live in.

Collections
2
Tales
24
For
ages 8–12
Format
10 × 8 landscape

C3 · Bright Growing

Effort, the long way, the name you earn.

Tales of growing up honestly — practice, patience, and the moment a choice becomes a life.

11

The Thread That Followed Tomás Home

Reciprocity

12

The Lantern in the Low Marsh

Sensing / Inner Voice

14

The Boy Who Sowed Shadows

Word as Seed + Thought-forms

15

Nine Steps to the Singing Stone

Will & Deed

22

The Weaver Who Wouldn't Weave

They weave what is sent, never what is wished

23

The Guide with the Limp

Bound by shared faults; rising frees your helper rung by rung

58

The Stilled Blessing

Real thanks is a prayer that draws the blessing down

59

The Fast-Forward Stone

Maturing depends on experiencing only

C4 · The Almost Country

Two roads, no third; the choice that is free.

The tales of the Either–Or — where sitting still is also choosing, and consequence arrives whether or not you meant it.

13

Mira and the Moth-King's Bargain

Bait of the Main Weakness

21

The Kingdom of Almost

Two roads, no third; sitting is also choosing

24

The Ferryman of Two Rivers

Choice is free, consequence certain

60

The Name That Waited

Man is what his name says, woven thread by thread

61

The Guest and the Heir

The guest who helps becomes the heir