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mistressmaryquitecontraryThe knock on Colin's door is loud and ominous.
- that doesn't matter much, however, as Mary marches in immediately after knocking and folds her hands neatly over her lap.
"Good morning, Colin."
- that doesn't matter much, however, as Mary marches in immediately after knocking and folds her hands neatly over her lap.
"Good morning, Colin."
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Date: 2006-04-01 04:59 am (UTC)It is one of his oldest hobbies.
"Good morning, Mary."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:03 am (UTC)Nonetheless, she checks the ceiling for anything interesting as a matter of habit before returning her gaze to her cousin.
"There is something," she says, bluntly, "that I wish to discuss with you."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 05:10 am (UTC)"Yes. It is -
It is very important."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 05:23 am (UTC)The important part is that I must look through your books to find out about funeral rites."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:29 am (UTC)"Why are you going back to India? And why do you need funeral rites."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:33 am (UTC)"I never did the rites for them, so they have become pisachas, I think," she adds, matter-of-factly, by way of explanation. "So that is a thing I have to fix."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 05:44 am (UTC)Mary's pale pointed face is solemn.
"It drives people mad - and kills children, and makes people miss their carriages. People become them when their children do not perform the rites for them correctly, in India."
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Date: 2006-04-01 05:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:05 am (UTC)He considers.
"--Would my mother be one?"
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:10 am (UTC)"You were only so very small when she died - they most likely got someone else to do it. Besides," she adds, sagely, "you should have noticed if there were a pisacha about."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:11 am (UTC)It might not come to his room.
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:18 am (UTC)Mary considers this for a moment.
"Well," she offers, eventually, "if we do find the rites, it would not be hard to do them here as well - for just in case."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:37 am (UTC)Mary tosses her head. "I must ask my friend to take us - and arrange things. I will tell you when."
Casually: "And you need not come, if you do not wish to."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:43 am (UTC)He just is.
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:47 am (UTC)"You shall need to bring something that you can wear for shade - and a good deal to drink. And weapons to protect against the pisacha, for they likely will not wish to be saved now that they are demons."
She considers him for a moment, before adding, "and something to wrap over the handles of your wheelchair - for they will get quite hot in the sun."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:56 am (UTC)"I do not know," she says, cautiously, "if I should tell Martha where we are going.
She would feel obliged to stop us, I think - because it is what Mrs. Medlock would wish."
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
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