[She hopes the sound of her breath catching in her throat isn't as noticeable as it seems, but for a moment she finds herself speechless, her words choked back before they can escape.
She always looks for parallels to her own situations in the fairy tales she reads. But it isn't often at all that people spell them out for her so plainly.]
Six years is a long time to wait with everyone gone.
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She always looks for parallels to her own situations in the fairy tales she reads. But it isn't often at all that people spell them out for her so plainly.]
Six years is a long time to wait with everyone gone.