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Eve relocked the door of the cottage, and stood in the darkness of the hall, trying to realise all that had happened.
It was like coming back out of a dream, save that the dream remained as a compelling and fateful reality, a power, a parting of the ways, a voice that cried "Explicit! " Her clarity of vision returned as she stood there in the darkness. There was only one thing to be done, whatever anguish the doing of it might cause her.