Srow Scare → 〈Instant〉

The locals in Oakhaven didn’t call them scarecrows. They called them a truncated name born from a decades-old town stutter.

Old Man Miller was the one who started the tradition. He didn’t use straw to fill the burlap husks in his field; he used the dried, grey moss from the Blackwood swamp. He claimed the moss had a "memory" for what it touched. While normal scarecrows were meant to frighten birds, Miller’s Srows were designed for a much more specific srow scare

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