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“Only the desperate will ever find this place. Hatta found it when he was desperate not to meet the same fate as his father. I brought you here because you were in so much pain, and I was desperate to make it stop.”

“But also, I sometimes pretend that it’s me, instead of him. I suggest he do the things that I would do. if I were… deserving of you.”

NO I GOTTA GO TO SLEEP BRO.

She would dance her lobster quadrille. He would juggle his clams. And all the while they would pretend that they were hidden away in a secret sea cave, concerned with no one but themselves.

Cheshire stared at her with his slitted eyes and too-many teeth.

“What?”

“You really are taken with him, aren’t you?”

“Tonight can’t happen again.”
His half smile quirked, more sardonic this time. “I know. That is the way of Time.”

She learned that Jest felt guilty about his hat trick tangling up her hair, he confessed as he soothed back a curl and sent goose bumps down her skin.