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Odette ఒ "Etty" (
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It's past dark, but when you need the outhouse, you need the outhouse.
Isabel picks her way across the yard of her father's house in the moonlight, hoping to sneak back into bed without waking him.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 02:45 am (UTC)
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Etty looks at Nona, and opens the door, and goes out into the orchard, and finds a tree to sit under and curl up and go on with her crying.
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 10:52 am (UTC)
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Nona follows her out and curls up next to her.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 03:44 pm (UTC)
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This might take a while.
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:02 pm (UTC)
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That's okay. They have time.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:19 pm (UTC)
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Does Nona want to sit there for the next hour listening to Etty sobbing and pretty much ignoring her?
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:20 pm (UTC)
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Sure.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:21 pm (UTC)
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Then after this hour she will be rewarded with dubious eye contact.
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:28 pm (UTC)
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She doesn't really know what to
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But, well, here she is.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:29 pm (UTC)
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"It'll be worse if I don't go next time," whispers Etty. "Won't it."
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:32 pm (UTC)
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"Yeah, probably," says Nona.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:32 pm (UTC)
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"I don't know if I can go, even so."
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2013-04-30 04:33 pm (UTC)
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"I know," says Nona.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:34 pm (UTC)
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"He was pretending such civility. I thought I could put him off. I couldn't."
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:35 pm (UTC)
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"He does that."
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:36 pm (UTC)
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"Does he
really think
on some level that I - that we - that -" She can't finish the sentence.
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:40 pm (UTC)
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"I don't think he cares. About anything. He just wants us to play along, and if we don't, he makes us."
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:41 pm (UTC)
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Etty wipes her eyes with her good hand.
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:43 pm (UTC)
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"I'm sorry," she murmurs.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:44 pm (UTC)
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Etty bows her head.
"I can't even write. Not left-handed in the dark."
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:48 pm (UTC)
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"I'm sorry," she says again.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:50 pm (UTC)
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"Tell me what I need to do," Etty says in a low voice, "that you can promise and mean it - tell me who I need to be -"
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growcrooked
2013-04-30 04:52 pm (UTC)
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"...I don't think I can
do that
," she says. "You're already yourself, and I love you, don't I? I just don't know how to make promises about it."
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:53 pm (UTC)
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Etty drops her forehead onto her knee and sobs again.
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2013-04-30 04:54 pm (UTC)
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Nona curls up a little closer.
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mute_pen
2013-04-30 04:59 pm (UTC)
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When they touch, Etty flinches back with a strangled squeak.
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"I can't even write. Not left-handed in the dark."
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