The cat came every evening, and the milk was gone every morning. She supposed it was the cat who drank it, though her Irish grandmother, Mama Deidre, for whom she was named, used to leave a dish of milk for the fairies every night.
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“I appreciate you letting me sit here,” he said. “God! It’s good to talk to somebody outside of work! How long you been over here?”
“A month.” An entire month of a precious three, gone. But two, two, two lovely months left to savor.
“A month? And you aren’t crazy yet? How can you stand it?”
“How can I stand Paris?”
“Everything is so … foreign.”
I took a sip of wine so I wouldn’t have to respond to that.
He lifted his own glass. “At least the booze is good.”
The prince waved a hand toward the towering wall of glass beside them. “Roxana, bride of my heart, is imprisoned behind this unbreachable barrier. With your help, I have slain the sorcerer. Again with your help, I have restored my father to health and sense. Yet my soul is still dead within me while Roxana’s enchanted prison keeps us apart.”