Whispers Between The Walls
f had tried to erase it. Ivy clung to the archways, and moss crawled up the stone
id after curfew.
hadn't s
alread
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e West Tower, glass panels streaked with age and mist, candlelight g
d-then pus
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omething unreadable in his eyes tonight-like the
. The door click
his place?
nodded toward the vines. "They're not supposed to grow
n ho
se they're wild.
by green and candlelight,
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call me her
ecause I needed to se
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't move. Didn't o
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ltered down through the dusty glass, brushing across his che
what that letter
t was mea
o mine. "And that
I wasn't cold. "Maybe I'
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ho
ls. The ones who never l
and flowering vines. There was a restless energy i
es. "You're talking a
sto
he ones who smile," I ad
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dn't
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gs no one else does. About the O
sita
of something.
e. But a crack formed
e said finally. "One
barely b
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able beside him-cradling it in his hands. Inside,
m once," he murmured. "An
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does Ra
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you," he said. "Befor
der
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step closer.
won't know who you're playin
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y a few fee
d like he wanted to say something else and wouldn't let him
trust me,"
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