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[a_lioness]

They didn't return in the evening, as planned. Neither twin had felt up to the long walk. No one had detected their presence, so they risked spending another night, stretched out on the large blanket under the stars

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[giftedthom]

Thom's gaze travels, rather cold, over the old stones; he says, after a minute, "I would have been really excited about coming here once."

[a_lioness]

"I certainly was," she tells him, still avoiding his eyes. She points between two marble walls and stops. "I found Lightning through there."

[giftedthom]

"That's right," says Thom. "And you lied about it."

[a_lioness]

"To Roger," she says slowly, her sharp glance landing on his hair, red and full and just like it had been before. "Well, I didn't exactly tell everyone that I almost died here, and it saved me."