There was a note crumpled... «Gideon the Ninth»
htlnmiami23 января 2025There was a note crumpled between her hand and the basket— Don’t talk to anybody.
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There was another note atop the paint box, which some skeletal servant had helpfully placed on one of the less precarious sideboards: Do not try to find me. I am working. Keep your head down and stay out of trouble. I reiterate the order that you do not talk to anybody.
Another note was stuck beneath, belatedly: To clarify, anybody is a word that refers to any person alive or dead.
Gideon said aloud, “Your parents must have been so relieved to die.”
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