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"How could this be?" Lydia paced the kitchen, a flurry of claret-colored damask and concern

"I don’t have any idea, Lydia OneI kneas in my bedroom back in my own time"

"Your own tiaze levelly "Almost five hundred years fro a brisk internal debate with herself The silence stretched into a protracted length of time while she pondered the liht that women were more open-minded and adaptable than s Perhaps it was because wo miracle of childbirth To a woman who could create life inside her own body, why, time travel seemed like ato find a rational explanation for things

When the Hawk had told her what strange news Grimm had discovered at Co for any signs of instability or peculiar behavior Through her close observation, she had only become more convinced that Adrienne was just as sane as a person could be She had concluded that while so had hurt Adrienne deeply in her past, whatever had hurt her had far frothened by it, like te woman behind some of Adrienne’s caustic humor and sometimes cool façade, but Lydia had found that stern walls hter-in-laas indeed Lydia cared for her enorrandchildren fro wo soe madness didn’t make sense Lydia knew Althea Coether, years past She was a practical, worldly-orownsuspected the Laird Comyn of acts of twisted violence Could she believe he had killed his own daughter in an act of senseless violence? Easily He’d had his youngest son slaughtered like a la up with one of the Bruce’s grandnieces

Through all of the Red Coeances, Althea Coed the aftermath to the continued benefit of her clan She was an extraordinary woether with sheer will and determination

And so to Lydia, the thought of the prag a fit of fantasy was more difficult to believe than the possibility of time travel Sie in any nonsense

Having reached her conclusions, Lydia s in tense silence "Hawk told hter That you appeared out of thin air Indeed, I have heard your brogue ebb and flow like a storrined "You have?"

Lydia snorted "When you were ill your burr disappeared entirely, my dear"

Adrienne blinked "Why didn’t anybody ever ask s haven’t been exactly calm since you’ve coht new surprises Murder atte like a besotted lad Besides, I hoped that one day you would confide in uards tell me they watched you disappear and reappear several tiainst the skirt of her dress, a far-off expression in her eyes "From the future," she murmured softly "My son believed it was some trauma that made you believe such ed

Lydia met Adrienne’s clear steady eyes They stared at each other a long, searching moment

Finally Lydia said, "Nay Not a hint of aze"

"I’m from another time, Lydia I’m not mad"

"I believe you, Adrienne," Lydia said simply

"You do?" Adrienne practically yelped "Why?"

"Does it really s finally return to normal around here, if they ever do, I want you to tell me all about it Your time I have s we ht "How did you get here, Adrienne?"