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Jane said, 'How much time before you have to get back?'

'I've got time. I'm the Chief.'

Jane smiled wider.

'Let's walk.'

They walked from sunlight to shade to sun, bees swirling sluggishly around them, lazy in the midday heat. It was good to walk. It was peaceful. Talley had been away for a very long time, hiding inside himself, but now he was back. He was on the way back.

The orchard, as always, was as still as a church.

'I'm glad you're here, Jane.'

Jane squeezed his hand. Talley knew, then, that though a church was a place to bury the dead, it was also a place to celebrate the living. Their lives could begin again.


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