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chapter 308
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POV: Hazel"I will tell you why the box is packed this way. Celeste packed it herself, Hazel. Look at the lid. The date on the tape is from last spring, two months before she was arrested."Adrian said it quietly, and then he came to the table and showed us. A strip of brown tape ran along the lid, and on it, in tidy black pen, was a date and the initials C.M. The ink was perfectly steady."She prepared it," said Imani. "She planned that we would open it.""She planned for it to be sent if anything went wrong." Adrian rubbed his jaw. "The lawyer says he was told to wait until the trial was over, and then send it to the Foundation, and nowhere else."I sat down heavily. The programme lay in front of me, with its torn purple circle. Part of me wanted to push it away. Part of me could not look at anything else."Why would she want me to see this?""Perhaps she wanted you to understand her," said Julian softly."I understand that she wanted to hurt me.""Yes. And that she kept a crayon dr
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POV: Hazel "Do not read them, please. If you read the first line you will understand why I never wanted you to meet the boy who wrote it. He was not a kind boy. He was lonely."Julian's voice shook in the half dark of the Foundation's meeting room. It was two in the morning, and every lamp but one was off. The wooden box sat in the middle of the long table, as plain as a coffin and nearly as heavy, with its lid already lifted.Adrian stood by the door with his arms crossed. Imani had come in her coat over her pyjamas, with her hair wrapped in a scarf. None of us had slept."Julian," I said quietly. "You came.""You asked me to." He did not look at me. "Adrian said the note told us to open it together. I thought you might not want to.""I did not want to open it alone.""Neither did I," said Imani. "So I called the one person I knew would not make a joke.""That was me?" said Adrian."That was you.""I resent it," he said, but his mouth twitched, and for a moment the room felt a littl
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POV: Hazel"Sit down before you fall down, girl. I have seen that face on soldiers. It means you have walked a long way carrying something you were told was light."Walter Pryce opened his front door at ten past midnight in a brown cardigan and one slipper. He had not asked what I was doing there. He had simply looked at me, stepped back, and pointed at the kitchen.I had not planned to come. I had left the studio at eleven, tired of the cold mirrors, and my feet had carried me across the river to a narrow house with a green door and a small cracked step. It was the house Nora had grown up in. It smelled of toast, boiled tea, and old books."I am sorry to wake you, Mr. Pryce.""Walter. And I was not asleep. At my age, sleep is a rumour." He filled the kettle and set it on the stove with a clank. "Nora is at the dormitory, in case you were hoping. It is only you and me, and a very old biscuit tin.""I did not come for Nora.""I know." He put a mug in front of me. The tea was the colour
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POV: Hazel"You rented a home in a city I have not agreed to live in. Tell me why I should not feel like a parcel you have tied up with string and stamped with your name."I said it in the kitchen, at nine that night, while the toaster ticked on the counter. The lease lay between us on the table. I had not raised my voice. It would have been easier if I had.Julian stood very still in the doorway with his tie loosened and his coat still on. He looked at the paper, and then at me, and I watched the colour leave his face."Priya told you.""Priya told me nothing. I found it. Do not punish her.""I would never." He closed his eyes for a second. "Hazel, let me explain.""Please do.""It was meant to be a surprise." The words came fast, as if he had practised them. "You were so frightened of Paris, and I thought, if the hardest part is already done, if the flat is there and the school is arranged and the way is clear, then you will only have to dance. I wanted to take the weight away.""Wh
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POV: Hazel"You are lying, Hazel. You always put your weight on the right when the left one hurts, and today you are standing like a flamingo. Tell me the truth, or I will tell Julian."Nora said it with her hands on her hips, still in her rehearsal tights, her dark hair coming loose from its knot. She had grown taller in a year. She had also grown bolder, and I was not sure which of the two I was more proud of."It is only the cold," I said."It is not the cold. It is the third day in a row. I count too, you know."I sat down on the studio floor and began to unlace my shoe. The room smelled of rosin and wet wool and the sweet orange peel that Theo left everywhere. Around us, the apprentices were stretching in pairs, pretending not to listen."Nora, if I tell you something, will you promise not to turn it into a drama?""I promise nothing." She sat opposite me, crossing her legs. "Go on.""Sometimes my knee does a thing. A small thing. It catches, and for one second I am eleven years
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POV: Hazel"You are afraid, Hazel. I can see it in your hands. Nobody shakes over a gift unless they suspect it is a trap, or a test, or a grave. Which one do you suspect?"The woman who said this stood in the middle of my studio at the Foundation, turning slowly on one heel to look at the mirrors. She was perhaps sixty, tall as a heron, with silver hair twisted into a knot and a long green scarf thrown over one shoulder. She wore flat shoes, and she walked like someone who had been trained never to waste a step."Madame Fontaine," I said. "Thank you for coming so far.""Élodie. Madame is for the stage." She dropped her bag on the piano and looked at me properly. Her eyes were light grey, and very tired, and very bright. "I came because letters are cowardly. I wanted to see how you stand.""How do I stand?""As if the floor might open."I did not answer. She had said it so plainly that it did not even sting. It was only true."Sit," she said, as though it were her studio. We sat on th
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