Chapter 10
Claribel asked to speak to Seraphine.
No.
Three months later, again.
No.
Then she stopped asking.
Better.
She wrote one letter.
Seraphine accepted it after a year.
Read it.
Burned it.
Her choice.
I did not ask what it said.
Growth for me too.
Not every secret in this house belonged to the head of it.
Claribel eventually moved away.
No exile.
No public humiliation.
She resigned from the charities attached to Thornwick.
Built another life.
I heard she never married.
Not relevant.
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People should be allowed to become more than the worst thing they protected.
Without being restored to the people they hurt.
