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Orianne: A Short Story

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She nods. "Indeed." She muses. "If I may ask, how do you think the court will handle this?" Orianne finds herself looking to Isidora, desperate to embrace her and tell her everything will be all right, but she will not. That would be improper, especially with the threat of so many eyes on them. Orianne finds that her posture straightening, under the belief that she inevitably will ask of Palomeres, but she does not. She smiles, showing a glimmer of relief -- something Helene would frown upon; but she was not there. And Orianne doubts that she was at the capacity of paying attention to her sister's actions. She uses her free hand to move some of her loose hair behind her ear. "I have been so preoccupied with how everyone is settling into

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