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The glass wall she’d built around herself was disintegrating – she could almost see it happening; the fragments winking in the light like tiny mirrors.

Time was funny like that, Violet thought. Speeding up and slowing down at the strangest of moments. Sometimes, she had the odd sensation that her whole life was happening at once.

Altha. Healer.

The physician spoke with confidence. He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.

Father had given them an odd look, as if he had come upon Frederick borrowing something of his without permission.

Violet had never much liked the idea of being married. She would have been quite happy to pursue her ambitions alone,

She’d almost convinced herself of it, that she could slip on that old professional persona the way one would a coat.

She was only doing it because as much as she couldn’t forgive herself for the day of the bees, she couldn’t forgive Graham, either. He’d made her different.

As if Kate herself is something to be unwrapped, to be torn open.