The new year blows in with a great falling of trees and a flood. In the churchyard, a giant cypress lies prone, its broken roots grasping the air. By some combination of wind direction or judicious divine intervention, it has fallen parallel to the church; a slight change of angle and it would have crashed through the roof.

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