Second Bloom
Rosa eats all twelve with the calm efficiency of long practice and says nothing, but the corner of her mouth does something that Valentina has only seen it do a handful of times in her entire life.
Valentina makes it to eleven before she starts laughing at him, which she considers a personal best under the circumstances.
"Three bad months," Ethan says, recovering.
"February, March, and December," Rosa says, without hesitation. "Those are the ones you missed."
"How do you know which ones they are?"
"You count from where you stopped," Rosa says, with the patience of someone explaining something obvious. "Everyone knows this."
"I did not know this," Ethan says.
"Now you know," Rosa says. "Next
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