THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

anger, something grand.

Instead, you feel a quiet emptiness.

The woman who wished you dead is gone.

But you are alive.

That is answer enough.

You visit Isabel Moreno’s grave the next morning.

Francisco goes with you, but waits by the cypress tree.

You kneel before the stone that once shattered your life open and place orange blossoms at its base.

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