GINEVRA
I walked round and round in circles. She would only let Osborn accompany her and Bill Harvey to the meeting with that wretched man who had somehow helped bring the lovely Peter into this world. I did not doubt she was afraid of more off-color Italian words from me. The older I grew, the easier those words came to me though I had only heard them spoke when my elders thought I did not listen; it was such words children seemed to hear the loudest. I wore my armor as Pearl"s protector a bit too well. I knew the truth of it… that the meeting was only for those with a legal basis to be there. If love and devotion were not the highest law of the land, then justice was indeed blind.
“Peter made a will, that we know,” I spoke aloud as I walked those circles in the Great Common. People sta
