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The trees swayed. She'd never seen them do so from this angle. From above.
She wasn't fully awake but she had become aware. She'd been sitting on her horse, talking with Bertie, Fiona pointed to the sky…and now here she was. Looking at the trees. They swayed. She heard nothing but ringing in her ears. Maybe she'd been shot. And this was what she saw as she ascended to heaven. Wouldn't that be nice? To imagine she deserved heaven.