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Ume: You should probably call Clover…

Altair: Please… Ume. Clover is starting classes this week. I don’t want to bother her… and there’s no one else here. Provence is visiting her friends in Peanut Brittle Bay and…

Ume: Okay. I get it.

Altair: Will you talk to me for a little?

Ume: What do you want me to talk to you about Altair?

Altair: Anything. Everything. Just keep talking, please… 

Ume: …okay. 

Altair: I…I… you’re joking, right? She wouldn’t… she couldn’t do that. Why are you telling me this over the phone?

Ume: Would you have agreed to meet me even if I had asked?

Altair: No… you’re right.

Ume: I’m sorry Altair… 

[silence]

Ume: Are you still there?

Altair: … I’m just… processing. I can’t believe it.

Ume: I’ll let you go. I’m sure you probably want to call someone else–

Altair: Wait. Please. Don’t hang up.

Ume: I… I’m sorry Altair. I should have noticed that something was off with her. Maybe I could have…

Altair: What are you talking about? You’re scaring me.

Ume: We found her… this morning. There was an empty bottle of anti-depressants next to her.

Altair: W-wait… this has to be some kind of joke. Please tell me you’re not saying what I think you are.

Ume: She’s gone, Altair. I’m sorry… I’m so, so sorry.

[phone ringing]

Altair: [answers] What is that is so important that you couldn’t tell me in a message?

Ume: It’s about your mom.

Altair: My mom?

Ume: She stopped by the station yesterday…[nervous pause]  I didn’t… I should have… [sighs] … 

Altair: … Ume… what was my mom doing at the station?

Ume: She signed a confession… thanks to her we have everything we need to bring Valerian in… 

Altair: [quiet] … are you arresting him?

Ume: … We already did. He’s going to be questioned tomorrow… but that’s not all, Altair… 

Altair: … [quiet]  what else is there?

Text from Ume: 

I’m going to call you. Please answer.

Altair: 

I don’t want to talk to you.

Ume: 

I wouldn’t be bothering you if it wasn’t important. 

Altair:

Why don’t you just tell me here?

Ume:

It’s not the kind of thing you tell someone over text message.

Altair:

Fine. I’ll talk, but just say what you to have to say and then we’re done.

Sirius: [laughs] That’s true, but your mom isn’t here right now, is she? Don’t you trust me?

Provence: Hmmm… let me think about that for a minute.

Sirius: Oof… 

Provence: I guess I trust you. Are you going to be here to get me after school?

Sirius: Promise. Right at this spot. 

Provence: [hesitates] Do…do… you think you can take me to The Bay after school?

Sirius: That’s a long side trip after a long day. Are you sure you’ll be up to it?

Provence: Yeah… I just… I miss Soliel.. and Halloween. They were the only things good about my last school.. .and if this school is the same… it would just be easier if I had something to look forward to. 

Sirius: We can do that. I’ll let your mom know that we’ll be home tomorrow morning. That way you get more time.

Provence: Really?

Sirius: Really.

Provence: You’re the best! Thank you!

Provence: What if they don’t like me?

Sirius: Why wouldn’t they like you?

Provence: None of the kids at my old school liked me very much.

Sirius: That’s their loss. You are the most amazing little girl I have ever met.

Provence: You’re just saying that because if you don’t mom will be mad at you.