— Don’t hesitate to come by again, I mean it. I’m really just as intrigued as you are by this whole mysterious thing.
Disappointed, she nevertheless smiled at him for his kindness, waved, and walked back towards the village. Thomas sat down at his desk and booted up his computer. He noticed that Marine had left her list behind and he picked it up. “Who knows?” he thought. “By surfing around long enough, I might be able to come up with… something!”
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Fall had settled in on the Larzac. It had nipped the remaining flowers and had yellowed the grass of the causses, those vast areas of grazing land on the plateau. It had bleached to a dull gray the normally blue sky. It had withered the last forgotten grapes of the vineyards and had brought much cooler temperatures. The tourists, those out
