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Odette ఒ "Etty"
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26th
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2013
08:00 pm
mute_pen
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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2013-04-30 02:43 am (UTC)
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growcrooked
The main doors won't open; the nearest side door is far enough that by the time she finds it, Nona is not far behind.
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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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2013-04-30 10:52 am (UTC)
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growcrooked
Nona follows her out and curls up next to her.
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2013-04-30 03:44 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
This might take a while.
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2013-04-30 04:02 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
That's okay. They have time.
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2013-04-30 04:19 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Does Nona want to sit there for the next hour listening to Etty sobbing and pretty much ignoring her?
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2013-04-30 04:20 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
Sure.
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2013-04-30 04:21 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Then after this hour she will be rewarded with dubious eye contact.
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2013-04-30 04:28 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
She doesn't really know what to
do
.
But, well, here she is.
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2013-04-30 04:29 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
"It'll be worse if I don't go next time," whispers Etty. "Won't it."
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2013-04-30 04:32 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"Yeah, probably," says Nona.
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2013-04-30 04:32 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
"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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growcrooked
"I know," says Nona.
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2013-04-30 04:34 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
"He was pretending such civility. I thought I could put him off. I couldn't."
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2013-04-30 04:35 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"He does that."
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2013-04-30 04:36 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
"Does he
really think
on some level that I - that we - that -" She can't finish the sentence.
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2013-04-30 04:40 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"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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2013-04-30 04:41 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty wipes her eyes with her good hand.
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2013-04-30 04:43 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"I'm sorry," she murmurs.
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2013-04-30 04:44 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty bows her head.
"I can't even write. Not left-handed in the dark."
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2013-04-30 04:48 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"I'm sorry," she says again.
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2013-04-30 04:49 pm (UTC)
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2013-04-30 04:50 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
"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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2013-04-30 04:52 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
"...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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2013-04-30 04:53 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
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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growcrooked
Nona curls up a little closer.
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