
Lucy was sad. Exploring the F. Land no rule from anywhere is right. And she went wrong. It was easier when she was alone. She was happy dancing and drifting in each and every prairie. Her caprice was the only law. Changes make the world go round. Now her will had to be suffocated. That's what civilization is, suffocation. All went better when the F. Land was a lonely place.
Civilization means another thing too. People. More or less, but people.
It was dark in the living room. Just the fire on that cold spring afternoon. The half empty cups of tea were still on the table, cold too. The biscuits on the plate. The two chairs unoccupied.
Lucy was looking through the window. At Rupert's back.
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