She met Novel with the compromise of getting the earliest possible train from Piketon Station, so that they wouldn’t have to stay anywhere in the human world overnight, which saw Lily standing in the pouring rain under the awning of Waite’s Jewellers at 6a.m.. It was the Saturday before the May show was due to take place at the Imaginique, and Novel arrived as precisely on time as he ever did, wearing a long brown coat and a frown. “Thank God you’ve brought an umbrella!” Lily exclaimed, pulling him by the arm until she could get under the brolly’s wide brim with him. “Why haven’t you?” he asked sharply. “It broke, and I’m broke,” Lily said. “I couldn’t spare the cash for a new one.” “You ought to have mentioned it,” Novel said as they set off from the jewellers. “Oh?” Lily remarked with a rising eyebrow. “Are you in the business of taking pity on penniless shades now?”
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