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It was perfect. Being here, with both of them. My heart felt so full that I thought it could burst. For the first time in far too long, everything felt right with the world again. And that was a feeling I absolutely relished.

Finn finally squirmed away to accept the plate that Andre passed him. “Hey, Andre, did you bring…?”

With a laugh, Andre reached into the enormous basket and pulled Ouire out, setting the book down on the grass. The grimoire immediately started bounding around on the corners of its cover like an excitable dog, its red ribbon bookmark waggling madly. It looked like it should be yipping with happiness, but the only sound I’d ever heard the book make was a soft rustle of its pages.

Ouire bounded over to Finn and leapt into his lap, squirming around, and Finn had to laughingly hold his plate up and out of the way, lest he lose a few grapes.

Andre shook his head ruefully, but there was a smile tugging up the corners of his mouth. “Try not to let him get potato salad on his pages, would you, Finn? It takes ages to get him clean again, and he hates baths.”

I threw my head back and laughed, and Andre joined me. His hand slipped into mine then, and part of me wished that every day could be just like this one. Our hands laced together, shoulders close enough to touch, with Finn’s laughter dancing on the wind.

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