Could that have been intentional, her errand? Had they sent her away that moment to keep her safe? Part of Phyre wished that they hadn’t, but that w...s just the morning talking. Her wounds were always freshest when the memories in sleep peeled back the scabs. But tonight hadn’t just been about the fire. There were new nightmares to be plagued by. She lay in bed thinking about what had happened last night. The murderers at Mr. Gilbride’s manor, it couldn’t have been a coincidence, surely. Yet. Clara was silent for a minute as she thought things over. The quiet forest made no interruption of her thoughts save the occasional bird call or rustle of wind through the leaves. ‘Then I am glad I healed you,’ she said slowly. ‘I had my misgivings at first, but I see now it was the right thing, and I am glad.’ Lukas laughed. ‘Me too, Red. Me too.’ Their faces were close, and as Clara stared into his dazzlingly blue eyes, she found herself lifting her face and angling it towards him, inviting. Both of us were doing the things to each other, that we had done separately the night before, and we blew holes in that couch when we came together.Kate was at work when I got back to the apartment. I knew she would be, but I still wanted to see her and talk to her about last night.I decided to take my application back by Mangini’s, then go by the campus and try again to meet with someone to see about changing some subjects on my elective list. I showered and dressed in some faded jeans which. "See how they spiral and circle around each other. Look at the butterflies on that flower bush. Aren't they so very delightful?"Another characteristic of Beatrice's that captivated Paul was her undisguised passion for the beauties of the Solar System. It was almost as if she'd only recently discovered them.They strolled by a copse of leafy trees where a small fallow deer had been grazing just before they approached. All this seemed so natural that it was often easy to forget that the climate.