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Hank stayed in the barn, looking confused

And I laughed as I straddled Clark moments later on the kitchen floor Why ride a cohen you can ride a librarian?

Oh, the French toast? It was greatreheated an hour later

Epilogue

Six h the nes that had been installed Heat curled around my bare toes as I stood in theatabout what direction to take

"Vivian?" I heard from below, and my body immediately knehich direction to take "You up here, Sweets?"

He called , I called down to where I kneaiting by the steps "Coave hi

I’d created a studio that was filled with light and color We’d added heating and cooling so I could work up here year-round, and I’d purchased oodles of supplies I’d kept some of the dressed mannequins; the colors they wore had becoet back into this world

Caroline and Sio, and when I showed her what I’d been working on she’d flipped She purchased two paintings on the spot for clients, and askedupdates on new pieces It seemed I had a new career

I’d carefully packed up all of the paintings by Aunt Maude and sent therateful That was their story, and I was glad that the paintings had found a new home

Over my head in my home was a new roof, and two floors doas a newly restored staircase with a new balustrade The ork throughout the house gleamed once more, the floors shone, and the front porch was hole free

And the Legless Knight still stood proudly in the corner of our bedroo the sea for pirates