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Lucy saze leapt to the closed door "If you have to ask, you don't remember"

Outside, footsteps sounded up the stairs Lucy edged away froet settled in-that first bank of drawers is yours Get dressed for supper"

Selena felt a rush of anxiety She couldn't do it Not yet, she couldn't go doith those strangers and have

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supper It would bring back too ht, just one, she told herself, and then she'd throw herself into this strange neorld

But not yet Now she needed a little et

"II ary" At Lucy's frown, she fu trip and I have the aching head"

"Oh, a headache" Lucy nodded "You always get them"

Selena frowned "I do?"

"At least, you used to"

An aard silence drifted between theht that Lucy wanted to say h sad eyes

"What is it, Lucy?" she whispered

Lucy esture "I thought you got out," she said quietly "All this tiht you were happy"

Behind them, the door opened and Eldress Beatrice appeared in the opening "Coather herself Brother Elliot tells me she is still weak from her injury"

Selena lifted her hand to her head "I have an aching headEldress I shall go to bed now"