“Chasya…makes me think. She surprises me. More than anyone else I have met. Even my professors”
It is a comfortable carriage, with lovely, soft leather upholstery. Hannah runs her fingers over it, then pulls the blanket up over her arms. Emmy is snoring gently, and Felix has his head in a book. And she just sits, disbelieving.
Shneur offered to join them, but she does not want to take him on a wild goose chase. Ernst offered, too, but the guest conductor is an ogre and Ernst could not take time off without risking a public dressing down.
So she travels the road to disappointment. It will not be a surprise to find nothing at their destination. It’s what she expects. But the possibilities graze her throat, making it hard to swallow.
Felix peers at Emmy’s closed eyelids and then addresses her. “Did you know, Mama?”
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