Seven years changed everything and nothing.That was the paradox of time inside a life like this one the world transformed completely around you while the core of things stayed stubbornly, almost defiantly, the same. The same table. The same garden. The same oak tree at the far end of the Greco estate that had been standing through everything and would be standing after everything and had no opinion whatsoever about the complications of the people who stood under it.Seven years.Viktor was seven years old and had opinions about football and breakfast and the correct way to pronounce certain words in three languages and the specific injustice of bedtimes that did not account for the fact that he was not tired.The twins were four. Sera and Lia Luca's daughters in every sense, his eyes, his precision, his particular quality of stillness that appeared in both of them in different forms. Sera still and observant, watching before she moved. Lia moving first and watching afterward, which
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