Graham’s family still seemed lost to him, but like Theo, he was not alone. He could relate to the youths’ joy in each other. He had another connec...tion with Theo it seemed, they have both come to the service to be with someone they cared about. The midnight service was approaching its conclusion. About the sanctuary slight rustling sounds signalled people’s preparations for the traditional final carol. Graham glanced at his own little candle where he had discarded it on the pew beside his coat.. She was unable to distinguish where she ended and he began, nor could she discern a difference between a human body and a celestial body. She floated in this fulfilling void for both a millisecond and an eternity concurrently, seeing and feeling both everything imaginable and nothing at all simultaneously. Then, almost suddenly, she found herself laying in the grass, looking out beyond the edge of the cliff toward the distant mountains, wrapped in his protective arms as he molded himself. Camille reached out and wrapped her hand around mine, raising the bottleback to my mouth. I went to take a sip but her hand kept applyingpressure, forcing more of the glass bottle into my mouth. Puzzled Istopped raising it but she managed to push just a little more in, I feltthe neck of the bottle at the back of my throat, what the hell was shedoing?Clearly she felt my throat convulse around the bottle as she pressed herthumb against the outside of my lips before withdrawing it and guiding. “Back in my time, a lot of vehicles were sold that way. You would sell all the usable parts off then scrap everything else. Here we didn’t have to scrap anything, lucky for us” Luke whispered back. The last stop was to sell the extra horses. They only really needed three, but decided to keep an extra two just in case and as pack animals. As Marion and Luke were coming out of the stables, Cecilia finally caught up with them. To say that she was pissed was an understatement. It was now late.
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