[for Chase - 5th September]
It was when Marian noticed September was nearly a week in that began to worry. Normally she would have started her cycle before the month ended, but these things were not always predictable. She had been working in the garden a great deal, perhaps she had overworked herself. There were many reasons that she could think of that she might be later than normal.
As the days passed she worried more, beginning to wonder precisely what might be wrong. Might she be ill? It was something she considered, but another thought displaced that. Another worry, in fact, of what had happened a few weeks before. Surely such a chance occurence...
Marian refused to follow the thought through, had not even spoken of it to Silence. Instead she sought someone she trusted, looking for Chase everywhere in the compound. That she found him in the Psychology office was no real surprise, and Marian shut the door behind her when she entered, her face carefully blank.
"I believe I need to ask a favour of you."
As the days passed she worried more, beginning to wonder precisely what might be wrong. Might she be ill? It was something she considered, but another thought displaced that. Another worry, in fact, of what had happened a few weeks before. Surely such a chance occurence...
Marian refused to follow the thought through, had not even spoken of it to Silence. Instead she sought someone she trusted, looking for Chase everywhere in the compound. That she found him in the Psychology office was no real surprise, and Marian shut the door behind her when she entered, her face carefully blank.
"I believe I need to ask a favour of you."