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Krampus
‘Um, thanks,’ she said, feeling her ability to maintain rational thought abruptly leave her. ‘That’s nice of you to say.’
‘I heard you were down at the beach barbeque yesterday,’ Dan said. ‘I’m afraid I didn’t get to go down. I was busy helping Dad set up the stall for the Christmas Market.’
Lucy shrugged. ‘I went for a bit,’ she said. ‘It was a bit … cold, um, so I came back up.’
Dan nodded. ‘You’ve been lucky so far,’ he said. ‘The winds can be brutal when they really get going. I’m worried we’ll get a gale come in off the sea and ruin Christmas for everyone.’
‘I suppose it’s a risk,’ Lucy said, wondering why, of all things, they were talking about the weather. Part of her was afraid to ask about how Dan had known she had attended the beach barbeque, in case he followed
