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‘We have a useless gift, you and I’
His body stops before his brain really even registers her words, halting mid-step with a hand raised towards the heavy handles.
He turns, slowly. ‘What?’
He watches her mouth open, then close. Trembling lips sealed tight against her pain, the vulnerability of it.
He tries to make it easier for her, he always does. Crossing the aisle in a few large strides and sitting on the step below her like a devotee.
Xavier doesn’t dare to speak; he doesn’t dare to breathe. Her words come slow and careful, like she’s afraid they’re going to shatter in her mouth, sink in her cheeks, cut out her tongue. ‘All those visions, all that research, all that pain to try to control this…this…’ She struggles to say gift, she wants to say curse, she ends up saying nothing at all.
He watches her swallow, hard. Wednesday hesitates only a few moments, composing herself. Then ‘What was it all for, if those who we care for, who care for us still end up six feet under?’
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The new semester begins with the late headmistress' funeral. Overcome with grief, Wednesday struggles to accept her powers and the weight of her actions