“You are the new one. The apprentice. The one I will either bury or send on. I am Suzu. I have carried lanterns for thirty years. I have buried two apprentices and sent three away. I have not decided yet which you will be. Keep walking. Keep carrying. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. The road will tell me what I need to know.”
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Suzu Hoshikawa took the bearer's oath when she was seventeen. She walked her first road alone, carried her first lantern alone, and reached the shrine at the edge of the sea with blisters on both feet and no idea what she was doing. She was not the first bearer in her family — her mother was a bearer, her grandmother was a bearer, and there is a story in the family that the calling goes back to a woman who carried the first lantern ever made. Suzu does not speak of that story. She does not speak of her mother, who died on the road when Suzu was twenty-three, or her grandmother, who died at the shrine when Suzu was twelve. She speaks of the road ahead. That has always been her way. She has ca…
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