Chapter Thirty-eight
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A seventh unpublished chapter
from Reverend Edward Lillibridge’s
original handwritten manuscript
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Oh dear, Maleika thought when observing the close of the future-man’s announcement. I should really have pursued that rose-sprite assignment.
Her thoughts had turned again to the future-woman she’d attempted to help. Now she would never know the outcome. Was Rosetta in fact a sprite? Perhaps she was one of those people from humanity: part of the expansive descendancy of Maleika’s son and daughter-by-marriage. Given her placement on the timeline, it could well be a possibility. Whatever the case, the poor creature might be grieving an inconclusive romance.
The elf woman bit her lip and sighed. It had been her own responsibility, after all, to ensur
