CHAPTER 270
Author: Pen thinker
last update2026-04-30 07:26:11

The morning had settled into itself with the comfortable assurance of a day that knew exactly what it intended to be—warm, unhurried, generous with its light. The garden around them had moved through its earlier, tentative quality into something more established, the dew burning off the grass in slow, invisible increments, the birds having completed their ceremonial announcements and retreated to their ordinary business, the climbing roses on the eastern wall opening another degree toward the s
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