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Cecilia Lefevbre propped her delicate chin in her hands and gazed out the leaded window separating her reading room from her garden. The dark, tangled kudzu did little to brighten a far too grey and dismal view, enhanced by the sun's refusal to come out from behind the gathered clouds. Oh, how Cecilia longed to feel the sun on the back of her neck, bleeding soul-rejuvenating warmth into her tensed, grief-ravaged muscles. It seemed, to Cecilia's sweet, poetic little soul, that the sun had not shone for so much as a moment since Mamere and Papa passed away.
Of course, even if death could really perform some arcane, vile magic that forced the sun away, surely that magic would not have followed Cecilia halfway across the continent to this new house. Her family home had held too many aching memories, and the quick sale had given her funds enough to relocate to a much smaller home. If she continued her current habits, which consisted mostly of reading, sighing, and eating nothing but biscuits and unsweetened tea, she figured she could live halfway to eternity without straining her accounts.
With a terribly sad smile and a deep breath, Cecilia channeled the voice of her mother, who would have come back from the grave to beat Cecilia within an inch of her life for such silly, self-indulgent behavior. Mamere's warm, kind tones urged her to get her ridiculous little behind out of this chair, into something a little less black, and out into the day- sunshine or no. Even if all I have left of Mamere is this imaginary voice, Cecilia mused, it will be a kindness from God.
And so, with the lithe grace of youth, Cecilia roused herself from her reading chair, enjoyed a brief, too-hot bath, and dressed in a dove-grey riding dress. She had not bothered to buy a horse, she thought as she fastened the eighty-five tiny pearl buttons that ran down the front of the exquisitely tailored silk, but she had not bothered to buy anything else, either- including any new sensible dresses.
As she laced her heeled patent boots and pinned her short-veiled sunhat to her lustrous raven-blue hair, Cecilia gazed sternly into her reflection and spoke, in measured, cultured tones: "Cecilia, you are a young woman now, and it does not suit a young woman to be so pale and thin. You must think of serious things, and eat serious food, and speak very seriously."
Though her imitation of Papa's voice was eerily precise- mimicry being the oldest and most well-used of Cecilia's mischevious talents- she could not bring herself to feel genuine reproach. A laugh, long and sweet and, in any other circumstance, capable of creating sunshine all on its own, trilled through the still, small home, and followed its enchanting owner out the door and into her gardens.
Of course, even if death could really perform some arcane, vile magic that forced the sun away, surely that magic would not have followed Cecilia halfway across the continent to this new house. Her family home had held too many aching memories, and the quick sale had given her funds enough to relocate to a much smaller home. If she continued her current habits, which consisted mostly of reading, sighing, and eating nothing but biscuits and unsweetened tea, she figured she could live halfway to eternity without straining her accounts.
With a terribly sad smile and a deep breath, Cecilia channeled the voice of her mother, who would have come back from the grave to beat Cecilia within an inch of her life for such silly, self-indulgent behavior. Mamere's warm, kind tones urged her to get her ridiculous little behind out of this chair, into something a little less black, and out into the day- sunshine or no. Even if all I have left of Mamere is this imaginary voice, Cecilia mused, it will be a kindness from God.
And so, with the lithe grace of youth, Cecilia roused herself from her reading chair, enjoyed a brief, too-hot bath, and dressed in a dove-grey riding dress. She had not bothered to buy a horse, she thought as she fastened the eighty-five tiny pearl buttons that ran down the front of the exquisitely tailored silk, but she had not bothered to buy anything else, either- including any new sensible dresses.
As she laced her heeled patent boots and pinned her short-veiled sunhat to her lustrous raven-blue hair, Cecilia gazed sternly into her reflection and spoke, in measured, cultured tones: "Cecilia, you are a young woman now, and it does not suit a young woman to be so pale and thin. You must think of serious things, and eat serious food, and speak very seriously."
Though her imitation of Papa's voice was eerily precise- mimicry being the oldest and most well-used of Cecilia's mischevious talents- she could not bring herself to feel genuine reproach. A laugh, long and sweet and, in any other circumstance, capable of creating sunshine all on its own, trilled through the still, small home, and followed its enchanting owner out the door and into her gardens.