“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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97RGRt1rU4
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“What are you doing here?” Madame Pommier stands up from behind the camellia shrubs, an emerald pendant in her hand.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNk4qwhavB
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrLxv0VnKM
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“The veil is thinnest here,” she says. “This is where I’m sealing it off.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqnEPxz2Mg
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My heart catches. “No, wait. Please. Can you stop it for just a little while?”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPPWmzkGXf
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She shakes her head. “Once it starts, it can’t be stopped.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIWAPWNj3r
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“No,” I murmur, clutching the bottom of my sweater. Will.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeIrxxtrEf
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“Cami.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXedfqc1Op
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcB0xCAlhx
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In my selfish desire to be with Will, I finally see Roanna’s side.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp55nfY9KXg
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“You were right, Ro,” I say, my voice breaking. “I’m sorry.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfyv8rdT8r
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Roanna hurries to my side and hugs me.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6i6Ubs1zs
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“Cami,” an even softer voices says.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqeJMblzkph
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHWjwPxLcg
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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.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJI6td5sCG
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“Or he could be pulled into ours,” Roanna says.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiAJEThdYj
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡripr7zOvVD
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“There will have to be an exchange,” Madame Pommier says. “Equivalent exchange.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14fcaJPCG8
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“Do it,” Roanna says quietly. “It’ll be okay. I understand now. I belong there.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZxTAQZC6h
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQj6zXVE38B
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“Can’t you both stay?” I ask. My voice barely comes out.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCWcX91Jlb
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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.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2Iz4ejWEi
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVffpyNofWg
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1y3KAW2O5
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“Goodbye, Cami.” Even if I can’t see the tears in her eyes, I can hear them in her voice.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxtRVH0Q6K
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWME9OIFUG5
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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.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMzbEtWzaH
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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.”721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0lrwrYROu
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And somehow, I know what it is.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQjJbIYrcs
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“Cami, don’t,” Madame Pommier says, taking a step toward me.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BPuj9GFzg
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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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk70Gmsuv4x
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