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I rolled hed

“You’ve only been there twenty-four hours I’et acclimated” I could see a little bit of her B-and-B room as she sat on the bed I wanted to ask for a little video tour right now, anxious to live vicariously through her

“Yeah, you’re probably right I crashed as soon as I got here and woke up twelve hours later to it being pitch-black in the roo position for hours upon hours”

“Did you at least feel better?”

She snorted “No I felt like crap and ay Then I couldn't sleep until the sun started to rise, at which point I went back to sleep and woke up with only enough time to spend like an hour at the public records office before the old lady working the front desk kicked me out”

She wasup to dosix hours ahead ofstuff while I was here, lying in bed and staring at the yellow-tinged ceiling

“So it wasn’t the most productive day, but I did find out a little bit, which is exciting and better than nothing”

I felt genuine happiness and elation fill rinned “That’s fantastic! So what did you dig up?”

I could see she was as exhausted as I felt and, hell, probably looked too

“Well, when I say I found a little bit, it was basically just the birth records of randparents and mother They were residents here and had no faot this weird expression on her face, and I could practically see her rolling what she’d just said around in her head “That’s weird, right? Like only the three of the like that”

I shrugged and wished I could have been so her feel better I could see the deflation on her face, though “I think that can be nor her sos seem less hopeless “I ot no one else in the world but you” At leastone—to her face