I focused on dear Darcy for a moment who always had pain hiding behind her eyes like a wortworm with the case of the woebegones these days. It broke my heart into a million pieces and it would never be whole again until her smile was true, but with Professor Orion gone and quite the scandal in his wake, I wasn’t sure when or how or if it could be fixed. I only knew that I would stand resiliently at her side until the end of time and punish any naysayers who doubted her love for him and his for her. My Lady Tory held quite the demons in her dillypurse too; those black rings in her eyes would
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