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"You alere an unnatural thing" Freddy raised a handkerchief to her nose as if she could blot the horses fros can be rather dull when you’re not present"

Serena hugged her sister "Take care," she said

Freddy embraced her in return "I always do It’s you I worry about"

Maybe Freddy would always think Serena strangely broken, and Serena would always cringe, thinking of her sister ensconced in her roo one another, no understanding one another

But when Serena had iven her a place to stay For all that Freddy made her stomach hurt, they still shared an affection ave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable

"Be well," Serena said "And go straight ho around until the coach is out of sight"

Freddy sniffed at that and didn’t answer, but she was pale and perspiring

And then Serena turned her attention to Hugo

His posture was forbidding--arms crossed as if to bar her way forward, his lips thinned in disapproval There was aln of the man who’d smiled and

"Hugo," she said Even his Christian name sounded needlessly fore his ers to board

"Serena" His voice was as off-putting as his stance, but his eyes…oh, his eyes He drank her in, as if he could gather her up

He was going to say it He was going to ask her not to leave

But instead of telling her that he couldn’t live without her--"Farewell," he said

And then, before she could fuap between the two of thee whole--he hefted her trunk with one hand and handed it into the boot of the coach "Farewell," he repeated

She boarded in a daze, refusing to let her confusion and nuht her way to a seat near the door so that she couldsoers

Freddy actually smiled in response

It would happen now He would turn and see her He had to She set her fingers on the handle of the door

Don’t walk away Her eyes clouded with tears You can’t walk away I love you