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[witticaster]

The flat was silent when Archie woke. A note on his bedside table, in William's cramped handwriting, read Explained to Sebastian. Taking him to the park. Will pick up Chinese for dinner. Each one had its own line, like some perverse checklist; only the love, Wm scrawled at the bottom saved it from terseness to the point of insult; that, and the way William's voice echoed behind the written words, sedate but warm.