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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf

where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth. thank you so much for joining me tonight as we start the penultimate

episode of Villet. But before we do, let's relax for a moment. Get comfortable

where you are and take a deep breath.

Stay very still and continue to breathe deeply

while you think about every part of your body

from your toes to the top of your head.

Acknowledge its existence

and just check in to see how it feels before moving on to the next path.

This should give you an awareness of your body and shift your focus from any thoughts from the day

Bringing you into the present, ready for our story.

Last time, Madame Beck sent Geneva Fan Shaw to convince Lucy to go to bed that night, and it worked.

Lucy went to the dormitory, if only to escape her.

There, Gotten, came with a drink.

Lucy drank it willingly, only to then be told that Madame had prescribed her a sedative to help her sleep, but it had the opposite effect.

Lucy felt excited and restless.

She envisioned the park in Billet in the moonlight and dressed to sneak away from the pensioner.

On arrival, she was met by a surprising and strange scene, hard to believe.

There was a fate that evening in memory of the fallen during some war or civil unrest.

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