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Celeste Finds Out Way Too Much About the Littoral League
As the day wore on, the adrenaline seeped away and left me leaden and despairing. I assumed Mark was still upstairs, listening for some word of my mom, but there were no updates along the way. The despair eventually gave way to a fretful restlessness. Drusy ignored this as long as it was just a question of my glancing at either the door or the phone every few seconds. But when I finally stood up, she was at my side in a moment, reaching up to press on my shoulder with a birdlike hand.
‘Sweetie, please. Just wait a while longer.’
‘But nothing is happening!’
‘That’s better than some of the things that could happen.’
I sat back down on the couch and buried my head in my arms. I wasn’t interested in lunch.
At three-thirty there
