“Will,” I say, reaching the camellias. I press my hand against my chest, trying to catch my breath. Deep pinks and oranges stain the sky.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDH6JgYU4Ag
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“What are you doing here?” Madame Pommier stands up from behind the camellia shrubs, an emerald pendant in her hand.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YTN7bttYw
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“What are you doing here?” I say with surprise and a tiny prick of irritation at seeing her in our secret place.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Hp09tGHbS
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“The veil is thinnest here,” she says. “This is where I’m sealing it off.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUm4YeWxFt
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My heart catches. “No, wait. Please. Can you stop it for just a little while?”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlVxc92LPE
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She shakes her head. “Once it starts, it can’t be stopped.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2hJNDyMzI
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“No,” I murmur, clutching the bottom of my sweater. Will.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVnjvoWbs6
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“Cami.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtDWOUXSpn
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My head snaps up. Roanna stands there, her giant curls wilder than usual. Her specs reflect the sunset, so I can’t see her eyes.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaNXD90qiO
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In my selfish desire to be with Will, I finally see Roanna’s side.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhETqnBbEpY
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“You were right, Ro,” I say, my voice breaking. “I’m sorry.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4Gbb1t1vH
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Roanna hurries to my side and hugs me.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpKugaeoU4
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“Cami,” an even softer voices says.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJgS895Wyx
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All three of us look up. It’s Will, but it looks like I’m seeing him through a frosted window. I release Roanna and take three big steps forward so I’m directly in from of him. I hesitantly reach a hand out, almost expecting it to go through him.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevv6rvUUSY
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“Cami! No!” Madame Pommier says sharply. “If you touch him with this closing in progress, we have no idea what it could do. You could be pulled into his time.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L6UJEF9ln
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“Or he could be pulled into ours,” Roanna says.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAf1qHA6wjd
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Her gaze is off to the side. I follow her gaze and see a pretty, young nurse standing there, faint and transparent like Will is. She watches us with wide eyes.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqvwZ9Nb0f
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“There will have to be an exchange,” Madame Pommier says. “Equivalent exchange.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6fSnvF1hW
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“Do it,” Roanna says quietly. “It’ll be okay. I understand now. I belong there.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0llFZawjM8
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There’s a finality to her gaze that terrifies me, but the sun is going down quickly, and there’s very little chance to think about it.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ktBYH9qkV
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“Can’t you both stay?” I ask. My voice barely comes out.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mTkxKdPW0
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She shakes her head and walks over to the nurse, holding a hand up. Turning her head to face Will, she says, “Just do it. Touch her.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvHMke7UA1
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“Stop it. I can’t allow you to do this,” Madame Pommier says. But she seems unable to move out of the circle she’s made in the dirt.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlsQMcsEM6
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Will’s hand closes around mine, and the image of him begins to sharpen at the same time as Roanna’s image begins to dim and frost over. She smiles at me. Her hand is locked with the nurse’s.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LcfctWOyd
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“Goodbye, Cami.” Even if I can’t see the tears in her eyes, I can hear them in her voice.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Rr08d3YEg
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I want to reach out toward her, but Will anchors me in place. He pulls me closer to his body—which is warmer than it’s ever been before—and watches her. Through him, I can see he recognizes within Roanna the longing to be elsewhere and how it feels to belong somewhere other than where you are.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxBQR3UYAv
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“It’s a psychiatric hospital,” I tell her, even though it’s already too late. “You don’t want to go there. You don’t want to be a patient.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzoUOxQIcN
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“A patient?” Now I hear the smile in her words. “I intend to be a doctor. Cami, there’s one more thing you need to do.”782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9qxZi11jK
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And somehow, I know what it is.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ndRGNh6B7
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“Cami, don’t,” Madame Pommier says, taking a step toward me.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRp9TjvACp
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The emerald glints in the vanishing light. I thread my arms around Will’s neck and pull his mouth down to mine.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnOSZuIymX
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