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The Hårga women undressed Clara. They painted her with runes. They placed the May Queen’s crown—woven from birch and starflowers—on her head. It was heavy. Heavier than grief.

She screamed.

The dance. Not the childish one around the pole. The Skovdans —the forest dance. The director’s cut added eleven minutes of Clara losing her mind among the wildflowers. She danced until her feet bled. She danced to outrun the image of her parents’ bedroom door, which she had opened. She danced because Christian was inside a chicken coop with Maja, the red-haired girl who looked at him like he was a harvest god. Midsommar.2019.DiRECTORS.CUT.1080p.BluRay.1800M...

No one looked at her. Christian put a hand on her shoulder, then took it away when he saw Dani—no, Clara—watching.

Clara saw them through a gap in the wood. Maja was feeding him a pubic hair baked into a bread roll. Christian ate it. He looked happy. The Hårga women undressed Clara

And nothing, she realized, was better than the wrong kind of love.

Josh, Christian, and Pelle had been talking about thesis rituals for hours. Mark was already drunk. But Clara hadn’t spoken since they left the Årstiderna restaurant in Stockholm. She was still wearing the same black sweater from the winter that killed her parents and her sister. It was June. She was sweating, but she couldn’t take it off. It was heavy

Christian was tied to a log inside the bear’s carcass. His eyes were raw from the smoke. He was crying. Or maybe that was Clara.

Clara turned her back to the flames. She walked toward the yellow barn where the feast waited. The crown of May dug into her temples. For the first time since winter, she felt nothing.