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Carwyn tugged on a lock of her wild, red hair "Which will not be for many, many years"
She smiled and lifted a hand to pat his shoulder "No, Father I do not despair of this life I am simply… weary of it at the moment"
He left an arm around her shoulders "Pray with me?"
"Of course"
Carwyn closed his eyes and felt the ancienthim, the pulse of creation beneath his feet His soul reached up as he opened his lips to whisper the ancient words "Give ear to my words, O Lord, considerand my God, for to You I will pray My voice You shall hear in the , I will direct it to You…"
Deirdre whispered softly, "And I will look up"
Dublin
May 2010
Another day Another night
Brigid slung her bag on her desk and picked up the list of tasks Toiven her It was too short She looked up to see Declan watching her with guarded eyes "This is all?"
He shrugged "Ask Tom if you wantmess? I want more to do"
Jack spoke quietly fro hts for the past five months Perhaps--"
"Perhaps you all should just let me work like I want to and not worry about me"
Jack’s mouth turned up at the corner "Ies for you Did you check her desk?"
She left the rooan one of their wordless conversations that pissed her off They all pissed her off Murphy pissed her off with his kid-glove treatment She hadn’t spoken to Eo to hell Her fao since Ioan’s funeral Deirdre and Sinead had come to the city the ht noises so they would leave her alone Carell, he obviously couldn’t be bothered
Another day Another night
She picked up a stack of ed through the doctor She didn’t need to have a deep heart-to-heart with her therapist She needed to work and she needed to kill soain, Carwyn had already beaten her to it
Fecking Carwyn
She walked back in the office and began the manifest searches that Tom had listed for her The one positive about this whole situation was that Lorenzo had been revealed as the source for the drugs that had been pouring into Dublin He’d made himself quite rich off her streets, as a et a handle on how extensive his connections had been