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    This family is strange. 

    Perhaps all the oddities boil down to Emma Clarke understanding nothing of British nobility. Still, there was something unusual about every person she’d encountered thus far.

    * * *

    Fred pursed his lips and shrugged, muttering: “I have no idea what you’re talking about. Nothing is amiss, never has been.” 

    “You’ve had to have seen something, Fred.” She pleaded, her voice suddenly terrified and desperate. “Anything.” 

    “I believe the culprit,” a voice resounded through the room. “Is you reading too many penny dreadfuls.” 

    * * *

    "We are a strange family.” Louis said. “There’s no denying that. But not every strange occurrence is linked to some whirlwind mystery.”

    * * *

    Nothing is bizarre, nothing is amiss, nothing is wrong - of this Emma Clarke is sure. But still, something deep inside urged her to look forward.

    "Perhaps I am Mr. Utterson," Emma mused to herself. "And they are all Dr. Jekyll . . . I can only pray our tale isn't as gruesome."

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