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**The Magic That Doesn't Go Away** Cutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raised—and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. There's no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her past… A young woman institutionalized since childhood is released onto the streets during cutbacks at the mental hospital. Unable to speak except in aphorisms, she is befriended by a lively pack of street people and gradually discovers that she possesses the magical gift of being able to communicate with inanimate objects. Original.