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It's little Edith Winthrop, who sees the strange woman first.

She sits in her bed gazing towards the window at her side,

and the deep forest that borders the estate, sad, and bored.

The books and puzzles lumped at the foot of the bed are finished, and in record time too.

Edith has always been considered quite bright for her age.

Her mother often calls her mildly light bulb,

in a display of affection that would likely shock the other women in her friend's circle.

But Edith just considers herself very well read.

It's not like there's much else to do.

All of her family's wealth can't buy her a better immune system.

She'd been laid up with pneumonia for a good deal of last month, and this month,

it's a cold that is evolved into a nasty and tenacious flu.

Very nasty. Her doctor had said in that tired,

what am I doing here again, voice that never fails to,

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