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not_the_last (Cassandra de Rolo) ([personal profile] not_the_last) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway 2023-10-06 01:39 am (UTC)

Her face, her whole bearing, steadies in response to both the tone and the words.

"All right," she says, and then again, "all right. Where do we start?"

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He lets them in, she said, barely understanding her own words. If Professor Anders is a necessary part of tonight's ruinous work, then perhaps they should start with him.

They wait in a shadowed alcove and watch. The clock strikes half past the hour; Ludwig emerges, heading for the main stairway to the children's rooms; not long after, Anders emerges, with the barely concealed stride of a busy man with work to do.

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