Penultimate Call
Mar. 21st, 2010 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanAlfie's prescience disturbed me more than I dared show, but I did not allow his words to dissuade me from seeing the party off. Still, I returned home in a state of disquiet, and dismissed the servants for the rest of the week, my own unease making intolerable the possibility that more innocents might suffer for my bravado.
My rounds were short, my surgery quiet. By mid-afternoon I was alone in the quiet house, making desultory notes at the desk in my consulting room in lieu of writing down the story I had promised on my honor not to tell.
My rounds were short, my surgery quiet. By mid-afternoon I was alone in the quiet house, making desultory notes at the desk in my consulting room in lieu of writing down the story I had promised on my honor not to tell.
