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By agreement, Alanna and Adam wait a full week following her return before telling the others. Just in case. Each day they visit the ruins. Each day the door is as it was the day before: useless. Myles they tell together, but Alanna asks to tell Raph alone. She owes it to him.
He's not hard to find; he's taken to spending time in the stables the way she did as a child, and it makes her smile until she remembers why she's there.
She clears her throat, letting him know she's behind him, and sits down with saddle oil and a dirty girth.
Some things are hard to say.
He's not hard to find; he's taken to spending time in the stables the way she did as a child, and it makes her smile until she remembers why she's there.
She clears her throat, letting him know she's behind him, and sits down with saddle oil and a dirty girth.
Some things are hard to say.