She hadn't checked to see if Aloïs was in when she got home from work, nor if he'd already left when she got up hours later. He wasn't in the house when she called, even though his boots remained by the door. His things were in his room, his knives left in various places waiting for sharpening or to be put into belts. Everything that he'd done or made for himself in Duplicity was still here, down to the latest, unfinished wood project he'd been carving at a table in the kitchen.
I am. Did you need something?
The truth is a letter pinned to a cutting board hanging on the wall in the kitchen with the feather knife she gave Aloïs at Candleglow. The only way it got there is if she opened it, read it, and slammed it there by hand. She refuses to believe it.
She reads her message to Wolfe again and sighs, typing one more before she lets it go.
I'm not expected at Venia today. I have time for you, should you need it.
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She hadn't checked to see if Aloïs was in when she got home from work, nor if he'd already left when she got up hours later. He wasn't in the house when she called, even though his boots remained by the door. His things were in his room, his knives left in various places waiting for sharpening or to be put into belts. Everything that he'd done or made for himself in Duplicity was still here, down to the latest, unfinished wood project he'd been carving at a table in the kitchen.
I am. Did you need something?
The truth is a letter pinned to a cutting board hanging on the wall in the kitchen with the feather knife she gave Aloïs at Candleglow. The only way it got there is if she opened it, read it, and slammed it there by hand. She refuses to believe it.
She reads her message to Wolfe again and sighs, typing one more before she lets it go.
I'm not expected at Venia today. I have time for you, should you need it.