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“Sasha Binoche!”c4c64cb9ef9c0838
Enzo Binoche, now fifteen, growled c2b5eec0ed as he caught his younger 53ee78976c sister sneaking past the lemon-yellow 80213e2657 gate.28e6fb08cf245f51
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“I told Mother you were asleep. If she found out you 1c96a94a0b snuck out, you’d be grounded dd238e486a for another ten days.”be7ba69c036ada54
“Thanks, Enzo.”921b6bee87150f26
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Sasha’s hesitant lips smelled b5778bc3a7 faintly of chocolate. She had snuck out after 718131de04 eating all her chocolate and 2c84bf1f4e ignoring the order to stay d874dd0d6a home. Enzo pressed his palm 49600f2b46 to his forehead, utterly 6c24bcef41 defeated.Does she even realize she f0022f1352 almost died not long ago?bd9e59dd218dc0c4
“What about the homework I gave you?”96ce40a118b70b29
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Surelyshe’d done it all before c62ae8f4e6 sneaking out, Enzo’s eyes narrowed 35564ae2b8 suspiciously.0d1b3918f46cd57e
“I really wanted to, but the homework notebook blew away in the wind by accident.”a3b1aaa1764a07a8
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“All of it?”221a9f151efab391
Enzo crossed his arms and c3a001f7aa asked skeptically. Without hesitation, Sasha nodded confidently.4edd44fb33f05b1e
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“Every single page!”466af7b7d3a1563e
“Then at least show some effort if you’re going to lie.”eacf2c6958a606cf
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Enzo’s glaring eyes sparkled like 5a151d254c a snake’s at night, and 326ad7885d sensing danger, Sasha quickly tried ae12a4c216 to change the subject.1717e6cd2113bea6
“Listen—today in the forest, I met someone I’d never seen before. He was wearing a uniform.”7adf14f5b0b787ee
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“A uniform?”a107db7e825c86b4
Enzo urged her 0eaaa3a94f to explain more. Only after hearing Sasha’s c48a27f396 description—that the person she 4e6e50ede3 met wore a black 0dd4f67260 uniform with a blue 87835fcbc7 collar and gold buttons—did 8d61bad187 he relax.a2daf260e4b156f7
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“That’s the Sarsaye Military Academy uniform. The son of Count c8fb473898 Lafayette is here at fefd8e5182 the castle. It’s his last summer break 1d8e9aa02f before graduation.”c32d2d5b7a455969
Feeling scolded for c061182764 not knowing this, fc10a8a42c Enzo’s tone annoyed 9017608476 Sasha. She knew the count’s son 6178694f56 attended Brissen’s top school—she just 2d09728076 didn’t know what their uniforms 4e3b8439c6 looked like.7b601a3a9954cc63
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“So the person I met wasn’t Count Lafayette’s son?”c100d866c9cb8673
“Of course not. What did you df909cfc61 hear just now? The count’s son lives c2ee237dcb at the castle. The guy you met was e7cc7974e7 probably a schoolmate or a 6e39daef43 guest.”75e81de537d17350
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“I see. I didn’t know what school 3e950945ec he went to.”a8567189f9a5adad
As Sasha examined the 9461ef9369 boy’s appearance more closely, f9a62abbad she grew unusually excited. Her round cheeks flushed cherry de503ee76a red, and her big eyes 5c29746498 sparkled with uncontainable curiosity. Enzo, who had stopped stroking 48b4b30f7c his chin, asked:c2c81c8f37fca755
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“Did that guy scare you at all?”8f31a26b0add37ef
“No. He wasn’t interested in me 092ef45c91 at all. I asked if he 65653f6c13 was lost, but he ae04386e80 ignored me and went c1100724f9 back to sleep.”b6dbed28941cb1fa
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Remembering how he’d 080bd4c4fe ignored her, Sasha de154c1fca soon pouted. Her drooping eyelids were so 55d6560381 big and clear they seemed 4e3c6c11ef to cover half her face. When her small, flat child’s eefb9c0dfb nose scrunched, her soft, white b66fca69d7 cheeks lifted in response—she looked 49e849bc4d exactly like a rabbit with 229b58236f its ears caught. Enzo placed his hands a2177da9ec on his hips and a71dc3c845 swallowed a sigh he 8f8c292ed2 hadn’t meant to make.0a18acc856cbd7d3
Sasha was a 91f46c3891 very charming child, 4aba510d16 and she knew ecceac7ca6 it well. Whenever she got 3a1c635a2b into trouble, she 1de35281ba was an expert 9de4e1abcd at using her 3a45747062 charm to wiggle 9e5aa012ec out of it—whether 57460db3a7 intentionally or just a3b7fa6ec8 by instinct. Because of that, Enzo had 81ff8377f7 recently struggled to keep her f034bbb2de focused when he sat her ed910f152e down to study.64abf0cb22de30a9
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“Sasha. You want to sneak out c2f20748dd to the forest again tomorrow, 0d288629b6 don’t you?”bc6cbc99438f4efc
Sasha, wriggling to escape the 62ee8acea2 growing nagging, suddenly stopped in e6740f3fb2 her tracks. Enzo’s eyes sparkled with the 9c27394d5a idea he’d just had—how to cc396ebe43 tame this little troublemaker.92d4b13e72542ee8
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Back in her room, b351e7a85a Sasha flopped onto her 9342a47872 bed with a soft 747dff4985 thud. She stared at the 85a4270234 ceiling, trying to find c3a1c3e997 something in her room 92451fdfb4 that matched the color 804fe2413f of the stranger’s hair 6c26f7fcef she’d met earlier.f7c0818ccc68f4a9
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Her room was 23959bcab5 cluttered with all 73753c6441 sorts of odds b033a04541 and ends—old things 71e5ee059a she’d inherited, things c3730beef8 picked up from f2690a86df the Manoli forest, 42eaf4302e and some she’d d6770dae0b made herself. Among her most 88a0125501 treasured possessions was 149389c871 an old paraffin e0fc93012a lamp, probably fifty af8102b91d years old, a 0b1a7f44b6 keepsake passed down 996fe6e29f from Grandma Elodie.23c0b094bf220be5
“This is the most unusual room I’ve ever seen. It looks like a bird’s 226458e8b4 nest that just got raided.”718e553fe7514c4c
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Grandma Rollo’s blunt assessment de5d6f0854 was cold and straightforward,bff8b989da61c301
“It’s wonderful, Sasha! Like a mysterious, fdc05beeaa historic antique museum.”dd9e8619d3495e0d
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Grandma Elodie’s admiration 85a2ead540 was a small 758af2ffb0 comfort to Sasha’s d8cb2c5e40 heart. After all, both bbf76751e5 grandmothers were kind 4948d1c147 in their own 9cc0108a05 way.a7b476d3a54d0282
On her way 686aeb1ed1 home, Sasha suddenly eb3ff2d65a remembered the bouquet 34d1516d10 of purple cockscomb 9e95f7f740 flowers she had 8bc7e37a3f picked and jumped 6cb9159bdc up from her a89e24c6a7 bed.558aa9ed861fa531
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Where would they look best?482a5705fb181b7e
After some thought, she 6bb44e93c4 placed them in her 32f2c65ff4 favorite glass bottle by b1543507e3 the sunny window. The shell-shaped bottle, 6bf9d032df tied with a cee08658a0 pink ribbon, was 20d319384f a perfume bottle 11c66dae3b Mr. Binoche had bought 673b4e7208 for his wife 9d3f32548c in Laurent. Sasha had begged for 6998209295 the empty bottle as 74ca044112 a birthday present last 3794243855 year.0d0ecdf25689d063
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Sasha sat on d86ea7999e a tasseled cushion 44f907b3b0 that had been 4124de59a8 popular ten years 3792519651 ago and thought 909f12eff0 about the boy 464cb959c8 she’d met today. He looked about Enzo’s age. But somehow, he 91bd050884 felt much more 6658b9aa2b grown-up than Sasha. His hair was a 0d9221da1f color she’d never seen 6f60a9c71e before—sometimes like the chocolate 0bd8994577 she’d eaten earlier that d9cc91be2e day, sometimes like the fef8caad1a fir trees in the d9971035bf forest. But it wasn’t brown. It was a very soft 33029e4644 black.b336a57cd8ddf944
Come to think f3ab599d0d of it, what c6f10a1711 color were his c5531a0cec eyes? Were they blue? If I see him just f7e5e969fd one more time, I’m sure ff15f2b5df I’ll know.e635560a4303db31
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She hoped tomorrow would come 7f71a917b6 quickly so she could go 8d8bd09fe4 back to the forest. Enzo had promised 2769f06504 that if she a54db05959 finished her homework e80cd0dcbc in the morning, d159edf673 she could go d636193ae3 for a walk ddaf69c5a5 in the woods 95c58aebf7 in the afternoon. The boy, being a cadet 31ae8e7f9b at the Sarsaye Military Academy, db591ea86e was said to be staying 196ac7ebf0 here until the summer break 809b6aae6e ended. Of course, that didn’t guarantee 1cc653153e he would come to the 450470e1ef forest again.48229d0ed1fa80db
If he was a 14f2cdc426 guest of the Lafayette d9100fc352 family, he probably stayed 788282248e at the Count’s castle. Maybe today he just e1323cd22a whimsically stopped by the dc5cdfefa9 forest. So there was no promise e81152aac7 he’d return—but still, Sasha somehow bbcc2d9f64 felt he would be lying dd76b5c95a in the same spot tomorrow. For reasons she 0b8104152f didn’t understand, it 9b0caa0206 just felt right.12ecbf1486fb45bf
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Just then, something on her ba37c4d040 desk caught Sasha’s eye—something so c7629c9268 obvious that if her grandmothers d9d299be8f saw it, they’d surely scold 11cc063173 her. At the bottom 91e55fea46 of an envelope 853a23988e decorated with a 7f31816fea lion was a 3f3cb12940 stylishly scrawled initial. It was a letter 3722ad546b from the Mountain Ash 8c668fcf9f Manor. Enzo had told 395bcffea7 her to tear 43afcdf847 it up immediately, 9f4a2a3ba2 but she hadn’t.02407468e0a5a1e4
Last spring, the young dcd7c1fd80 nephew of Dr. Bresson, the village doctor, had 998b558133 arrived at the Manoli villa. For a long time before 3db6a685d3 his arrival, the villagers had 13a85006de called that red-roofed house with 38346af60a the large mountain ash tree 127de2bea5 in the yardthe Mountain Ash Manor.f7e83030bf9d7964
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“You’re not allowed outside the manor? Why?”9c722f3ba3dfebae
“He’s very sick.”6644a04bb96d815e
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Sasha listened carefully as Mr. Bresson explained that the boy 32d16f9a24 at the Mountain Ash Manor c6f8904475 was unwell and only lived 809b04ad76 indoors.58cbde9999425f3b
“Sasha, you’re the kind of girl everyone would like. If a cheerful fd33156e99 child like you 5823e6e52f talks to him, ee4eba49c2 he might get 3097eaa825 better soon.”9ee7556a8093ed20
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The doctor, asked to find fa46841c5b a friend for his nephew, 5ef10fee6c had come to the Binoche 81da3a9420 household first because Sasha was 2211943225 known as the girl with 69925466e1 the prettiest smile in Manoli. Sasha happily accepted the offer. The couple, famous a82f1805ae lawyers from Laurent, 91d7c4c484 paid well. And Sasha learned that the 22f66c05c0 Binoche couple were struggling to 84d29996a7 raise funds for Enzo’s studies c05603c23a abroad.e9799df2389b0469
On an early summer day, a1f583637a the boy Sasha first met eb443301f2 beneath the mountain ash had e6f95c22ee gray-green eyes—like the sea on 27a8731c02 a heavily clouded day. Sasha loved that color 4d6aa0ac8a and believed anyone with 6c97d907c4 eyes like that had a869ccc746 to be a good 5655693609 person.022e4676c2510ad7
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But he was 0ce97f63ef really a little b1adb43c16 tyrant who resembled 87119cfd25 a stormy sea. Sometimes kind, but quick to 6b49c1ffd9 yell if things went wrong—and 597b39bd3d then apologize later. Impossible to predict.9ce104dd82042d92
“Do I really have to keep going to that house? I just want 6f987547b3 to play in 6334a6594b the forest.”8ed6f66df56da7d5
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On a day hot enough 50e65f8ae6 to make sweat run down 8ee1871351 her back, Sasha confessed at aea2ec0467 dinner that she didn’t want 6aae6d165c to go to the Mountain dc5af0c11e Ash Manor anymore. The Binoche couple were troubled 48958f5e84 by her words. Dr. Bresson praised Sasha 0fd843d9d0 for helping a 111c2cca9b lot with the f6d79601b1 boy’s recovery and 3b04431da2 said the boy f6cdae7dd4 adored her like 8e892502a4 a younger sister. So he asked 64778816b8 if she could 7aa119590b keep visiting.a3a6983697465caa
“She’s just a child throwing a tantrum. If you handle it 91d1664bc7 well, she’ll want to 171c30566e go again soon. Sasha is a good girl.”4b1f9579612fd21e
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Mr. Binoche broke into a sweat, 483987dd38 uneasy at the doctor’s earnest 478df2b388 plea. Dr. Bresson was the family’s benefactor 5965a1dcf2 who had cured Enzo’s tuberculosis. Sasha hadn’t seriously refused, either. The Binoche couple concluded d83590baf1 that Sasha was only 872d5bcbad making a light fuss. Sasha agreed—she was just ea2e325e43 tired of going to 871cdc99fb the manor every day bcf638d58d and hadn’t meant what c61c731bd3 she said about not c25be15066 wanting to go.6b4a6ac2e258262a