There was a lot of talk about the proper way to behave in the cemetery. Don’t step on a grave. Don’t talk too loud. Don’t eat or drink or climb on the stones. But you know what, Bell? All those people making all those rules—they got it wrong. That’s not respect. You know the only real way to respect people whose lives are over? Or those like me, whose lives never even began?” “How?” Bellatine breathed. She wanted to know. She wanted to learn everything. Somehow, she’d dismissed Winifred as ditzy, frivolous, airy. But she was wrong. This was an ancient being. She was a part of the planet
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