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“Anastasia, a maintenance worker for Acadia National Park, lives off Main Street in an apartment building owned by Mount Desert 365, a nonprofit whose mission is to combat “community deterioration” in the town of Mount Desert, which includes the village of Northeast Harbor.

Between 2012 and 2022, the town’s population shrunk by 20 percent while the seasonal vacancy rate — homes left empty by summer residents or houses converted into short-term rentals — grew from 46 to 60 percent. (Bar Harbor recently began regulating short-term rentals; the island’s three other towns have not.)

The median price for a home in Mount Desert last year was nearly a million dollars, doubling in just five years.

Mount Desert 365, watching these changes unfold, began purchasing property several years ago with hopes of building year-round workforce housing — typically property whose sale or rental price is lowered below market rates and set aside for people with incomes near the area median.

One of those plots is the 0.9-acre lot on the corner of Manchester and Neighborhood, where the group plans to build a six-unit subdivision called “Heel Way.”

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Anastasia got a job with the National Park Service and is now one of the workers who ensures Acadia doesn’t decay under the weight of the more than 4 million visits it receives each year, visits that fuel the local recreation-based economy: hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, lobster pounds, and bike and kayak rentals. In the summer he puts new roofs on park buildings, fixes bathrooms and replaces fixtures. While many park workers leave the island during the winter, he stays on, rehabbing the interiors of park buildings.

During “the season,” which runs from May to October, cars and trucks pour over the bridge, carrying workers who make it possible for Mount Desert Island to serve as a summer haven for some of America’s richest people.

Come nightfall, those workers go back over the bridge, unable to find or afford housing on the island.

Anastasia gets to stay, but only because he found an apartment set aside for working-class people, and because he didn’t have pets and everyone in front of him on the waiting list did. He knows he’s lucky to have a place in town, but it’s a rental, and he dreams of one day buying a home and making it his own.

“I’m holding on for Heel Way,” Anastasia said. “But it’s not everybody’s dream to see housing there.”

Since the start, the project has been the subject of great debate, spurring petitions for and against. After months of public hearings, it was approved by the town planning board late last year in a 3-1 vote. But soon after, a group of seven wealthy summer residents sued the town, arguing the six-unit project was too dense.

A judge struck down all their arguments; undeterred, they appealed the court’s decision last month, delaying the project and costing the town, so far, at least $55,000 in legal fees. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court won’t hear the case until February at the earliest.

The project proponents say the island desperately needs housing and year-round residents, and the Heel Way subdivision would be an important, if small, step. Many see the lawsuit as an example of a NIMBY (“Not In My Backyard”) attitude that has limited housing development across the country.

Opponents, meanwhile, say they support workforce housing but think the Heel Way project is flawed, with too many units on too small a plot — out of character for the neighborhood.

The debate comes amid a number of recent votes by Maine communities to stop affordable housing projects — distinct from workforce housing but with a similar goal — including a 107-unit proposal in Cumberland and a 45-unit project in Kingfield earlier this year.

What makes the fight over Heel Way unique is the small size of the project — just six units — and the way it has been stymied not by local voters but by a lawsuit from seven wealthy people who only live in the area part-time.

The debate pits millionaire summer residents not only against the town planning board, but against billionaire brothers Mitchell and Steven Rales, who have funded the effort to build housing for working-class people.

As Maine grapples with a housing shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, the fight over Heel Way shows how efforts to address the crisis can be both buoyed and stymied by the same force: private individuals with massive wealth.

Across the United States, the refrain is the same: There isn’t enough housing. One recent analysis found that the U.S. is short 4.5 million homes, while Maine, a state study found, needs to build 84,000 homes by 2030 to make up its deficit.

One way to address the crisis, experts say, is by changing zoning laws, which often serve as a way for communities to forbid cheaper, denser housing in favor of single-family homes. Maine has taken steps to loosen zoning policies in recent years, including instituting a law in 2022 that required municipalities to adjust ordinances to allow greater density and accessory dwelling units on single-family lots.

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A 2018 study of Mount Desert Island’s housing needs found that, conservatively, there was demand for an extra 125 to 300 workforce housing units, and the island could “easily” absorb 100 to 200 below-market-rate senior housing units by 2023.

But for many who live and work on the island, the 2018 housing market seems like a different world. The pandemic exacerbated the trend of people converting year-round housing into summer homes and short-term rentals, taking housing off the market and driving up prices. The price of a median home in Mount Desert, according to the Maine State Housing Authority, was just under $450,000 in 2018. By 2023 it had doubled to $903,000.

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It’s become common for businesses large and small on the island to provide, and sometimes build, housing for employees, adding costs to businesses that are sometimes only open half the year.

Earlier this year, Witham Family Hotels opened a three-story housing complex that will house 84 seasonal workers in Bar Harbor. The nonprofit Friends of Acadia has begun construction on housing for eight seasonal National Park Service workers in Seal Harbor, another village in the town of Mount Desert. (Last year about 30 percent of Acadia’s seasonal positions went unfulfilled, in large part because potential workers struggled to find a place to stay.)

Susan Allen, an island native who owns the Harbour Cottage Inn in Southwest Harbor, bought a house three doors from her own home to house four of her seasonal employees. In the winter she rents it to a friend.

“I don’t like taking any year-round housing out of stock,” Allen said. “But it’s a slippery slope because if I can’t get staff, I can’t run my business, and then I’d have to leave.”

For Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, the housing shortage represents an existential threat.

When Lon Cardon, the CEO of Jackson Laboratory, which employs 1,500 people in Bar Harbor, Ellsworth and Bangor, talked to a meeting of the Mount Desert Association of Summer Residents in Northeast Harbor last month, he described the integral role his lab’s research has played in fighting and treating diseases.

Then he turned to housing.

Cardon told them that when he took the job and moved to the island in November 2021, he couldn’t find a place to live. (Cardon earns more than $1 million a year at the lab, tax records show.)

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The struggle is even greater for the lab’s rank and file. The laboratory built 24 rental units for its employees, which Cardon said didn’t move the needle. If he had been in charge at the time, he’s not sure he would have approved the project, he said. After all, building housing diverts money from research.

The question of housing prompts an even larger one for Cardon and his lab, the largest private employer on the island: “Do we stay here?”

Mount Desert 365, the group behind the Heel Way project, started because of cruise ships.

Sitting in her office overlooking the harbor, executive director Kathy Miller recounted her group’s origins: In 2016, a relatively small cruise ship dropped anchor and disgorged vacationers into the town. Some saw this landfall as a portent of a future that revolved around selling tchotchkes to tourists. Meetings and debates followed. Eventually, the town of Mount Desert passed an ordinance that barred cruise ships from letting passengers disembark. Other towns on the island followed suit (except for Bar Harbor, where the battle rages on).

During those meetings, many business owners said the day the cruise ship came to town was their best in years. And so two things became clear, Miller recalled: This town doesn’t want cruise ships, but local businesses need more support to stay solvent. And the founders of Mount Desert 365 thought the best way to do that was to increase the year-round population.

The founders included Mitchell and Steven Rales, the brothers who launched the Danaher corporation in 1984. The company is now a publicly traded “global life sciences and diagnostics innovator” worth $197 billion. The brothers, who have an estimated combined net worth of nearly $15 billion, own millions worth of property in the town of Mount Desert through various LLCs, including the $19 million dollar Rockefeller mansion that Mitchell Rales tore down and rebuilt.

Mount Desert 365 launched in 2017 with $6 million in funding, according to tax records. Shortly after, the group bought the Heel Way property, and eventually purchased nine others. By the end of 2023, the group owned $9.7 million in property but had just $131,197 in savings and cash, according to its most recent federal tax filings.

The final design for Heel Way, approved by the planning board, shows a lot with two duplexes, two single-family houses and a five-bay garage, which would be converted into storage space. Each unit has a two-car driveway and a deck.

The original plan was for the houses to cost between $250,000 and $275,000 — around a quarter of the median price in town. But Miller notes that estimate is now years old, and the longer the project is delayed, the higher the price is likely to rise.

Units will be sold to families who qualify for mortgages but don’t make more than a certain percentage of Maine’s median income, depending on family size, Miller said. A family of four would be eligible if they earned less than 160 percent of Maine’s household median income of $73,733, which would be $118,000 a year.

The Heel Way renderings show small houses with columns and dormer windows, bracketed by lush trees and well-manicured hedges. One shows an adult holding a child’s hand as they approach a house. This is what proponents envision: young families with parents doing essential work and children attending the local school, a short walk away.

“This village has lost so much. This village used to be vibrant in the wintertime and now it’s dead,” Miller said.

“And if you don’t want shops that are boarded up all winter because there’s nobody there, then you’ve got to have people.”

Opposition to the project has been fierce. In the fall of 2022, a petition was signed by 205 residents who “support workforce housing” but oppose the project. They argue the housing units would be too cramped, and warn about traffic that would hurt children riding their bikes between the tennis and yacht clubs.

They worry there wouldn’t be enough space for all the stuff that sits in Maine garages and sheds: grills, snowblowers and boats. They argue the character of the neighborhood would change, and residents wouldn’t be able to build equity because the sale to the next qualified buyer would be capped by price restrictions.

To many opponents, the main problem is the number of units. Under the old density ordinance, six units would not have been allowed on a lot the size of Heel Way. But under the updated ordinance, developers can use a “density bonus” if the area is designated as workforce housing.

Many said they’d have no problem with three units on the property. Why did it have to be six?

“The state needs as many as it can get,” Miller said. “Our mission is to bring back a more robust year-round population, and so we are working within the ordinances. We’re not asking for any special permission. This is what the ordinances allow. So why not do it?”

During one planning board meeting, Miller made a presentation showing there already were several other lots in the village with similar or greater housing density, calculations the planning board cited in its approval of the project.

In addition, a basic fact of housing construction is that greater density lowers costs.

“There is an economy of scale,” Miller said.

Barbara Ryerson, whose husband is one of the residents who sued the town, was involved in submitting the petition against the project. In a March 2023 letter to the planning board, she wrote that she and other neighbors had “put ourselves in the shoes of the residents” and had concerns: “We want to ensure the workers in Northeast Harbor and the town of Mount Desert are able to obtain affordable housing and live comfortably, safely, and not packed in so densely.”

But the density doesn’t bother Anastasia, nor Gloria Kunje, who for months traveled between her home in Connecticut and Bar Harbor while working at the College of the Atlantic because she couldn’t find a place to live on the island. Now a special education teacher living in the same Mount Desert 365 project as Anastasia, Kunje wonders how opponents came to their conclusions.

“That’s not an issue at all,” she said of the density. “When those arguments are made, are they actually asking the people who would love to live there?”

One common argument at public hearings, almost always prefaced with a declaration of support for workforce housing in general, was that tenants filling up six units could bring a dozen new cars to the corner, which sits on Manchester Road.

In one June meeting, Mara Lehrman, a summer neighbor on Manchester Road, noted her “primary concern” was the safety of children biking, asking if MD 365 shouldn’t focus its efforts on its property “where it would not disturb the wonderful independence that children have in Northeast Harbor to bike without the fear of getting hit by cars.”

Traffic engineer Diana Morabito shared the results of a traffic survey done by the Department of Transportation that found Manchester and Neighborhood roads had a peak of 84 vehicles per hour in busy July, with daily volumes ranging from 550 to 880 vehicles per day. Her study found that the site would add four to five more cars per hour.

“That’s one extra car coming or going every 12 to 15 minutes,” Morabito said. “That’s not a lot of additional traffic.”

Proponents also noted that the project’s driveway exits onto Neighborhood Road, not Manchester Road, which is the road well-traveled by children.

In fact, Mount Desert 365 altered the plans in response to neighbor concerns, moving the driveway from its original spot on Manchester Road. Then they moved the driveway again so it wasn’t aligned with the driveway across the road, because the residents of that house — who lived there only part-time — were worried about headlights shining on their house at night.

Bill Hanley, an architect and chair of the Mount Desert Planning Board, said part of the controversy stemmed from Mount Desert 365’s “unwavering position” on the number of units.

“It’s a lot on a little,” he said, noting that putting that many units on a small lot in a “single-family residential area in the village of Northeast Harbor” is “going to stir up the hornet’s nest.”

Hanley was the one member of the four-member planning board who found the project did not meet the town’s criteria requiring “compatibility” with the surrounding area.

Meredith Randolph, a planning board member who resigned in July, said Mount Desert altered its designs a great deal in response to community feedback. In her opinion the planning board process worked — but it wasn’t enough.

“We got it back, redesigned to a more compatible, more aesthetically pleasing design, with the town recognizing a number of people’s reasonable requests for adjustments to the design,” Randolph said. “But they still took it to court.”

In November, seven wealthy residents sued the town, arguing that the planning board defined “lot” incorrectly, calculated allowable housing density incorrectly, failed to apply the correct open space requirements, and should have required a performance bond.

In June, Justice Thomas McKeon of Maine’s Business and Consumer Court struck down all of the plaintiffs’ arguments. The group appealed the decision, and the case awaits a decision from the high court.

Opponents often ask why Mount Desert 365 can’t be more like another housing nonprofit, Island Housing Trust. The group has converted 49 homes — either purchased or acquired via donation — into workforce housing, said Marla O’Byrne, the Island Housing Trust executive director. It also built a workforce housing development of six single-family homes and two duplexes closer to the head of the island.

Island Housing Trust depends on donors, among them the conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, and the Law and Order television series creator Dick Wolf, as well as some of the Northeast Harbor residents suing the town.

The group has avoided the kind of controversy Mount Desert has found itself in with the Heel Way project. That’s because it has largely converted existing single-family homes into workforce housing, and has built in more remote parts of the island — away from the donor class.

“Those were not areas where the people that appealed this decision would necessarily even travel,” said Mount Desert town manager Durlin Lunt.

At one point, Mount Desert 365 proposed that Island Housing Trust take over the Heel Way Project. But Island Housing Trust turned down the offer, O’Byrne said.

“My board wanted to have more input into what was done, how it was done, and may have come to the same conclusions, but they didn’t just want to implement another organization’s project,” she said.

Some opposition is also connected to who is funding the project and what they plan next. Mount Desert 365 has other properties around town, and there is concern that all of them will be developed with a similar density.

“I’m going to address the elephant in the room,” said summer resident Betsy Kelly during a March 2023 planning board meeting, prefacing her comments by saying, as almost all opponents did, that she “fully supported the building of affordable housing in Northeast Harbor.”

“I’ve never seen a master plan from Mount Desert 365,” Kelly said. “The pockets are so deep, and the power and the control that MD 365 has is, or perceived to have, is very, very great.”

Several of the seven summer residents who sued to stop the project own summer homes down Smallidge Point Road, which begins a few hundred feet away from the Heel Way site, next to a sign that reads: “Private Road. Owners and Guests Only.”

The road is named after Smallidge Point, a small peninsula that forms the western shore of Gilpatrick Cove, ending near a private wooden bridge leading to the Northeast Harbor Fleet, the area’s yacht club.

Stuart Janney III, one of the plaintiffs, lives down this road and has summered in Northeast Harbor for most of his life. Janney is the chairman emeritus of Bessemer Trust, a private wealth management firm that oversees more than $200 billion, as well as a director of the New York Racing Association. Janney owned Orb, the 2013 Kentucky Derby winner.

He owns a summer residence assessed at $3.7 million that is located a quarter-mile from the Heel Way site. He and his wife have also donated tens of thousands to Island Housing Trust, according to the group’s annual reports.

In March 2023, Janney and his wife wrote to the planning board, explaining that Mount Desert 365 had invited them to an event in which the group laid out its plans. The dinner led the pair to conclude that the group’s approach was “ill conceived and not based on facts or analysis.”

“We were not alone,” they wrote.

They said if the Heel Way project were developed “as proposed,” it would “have a profound negative impact on the neighborhood.”

They went on to say the group has “underperformed with past projects” and “has never stated a research-based case for what they propose.”

During a recent phone call, Janney declined to answer many of The Monitor’s questions on the record. But he stressed his desire for a vibrant year-round community.

“We all agree that we want the town to be more vibrant, to not have the lights out in the winter, to have a better workforce environment, to protect the school from going out of business,” Janney said.

“And I would also say that nobody in the community that I have anything to do with has ever had any problem or worry about the fact that we are a community of year-round residents and summer residents. We wouldn’t want it any other way. That’s what we grew up with. Some of my best friends are year-round residents.”

“Housing is a real need,” he added. “But the worst thing in the world for Northeast (Harbor) would have been for this project to go forward and have it be a complete failure.”

Lynne Wheat, another plaintiff, also owns property on Smallidge Point Road.

In October 2023, she wrote to Hanley to express concerns about “too many people and too many cars,” noting that “some child is going to get thrown off their bike, or worse.”

She said she feared the project would serve as a template for Mount Desert 365’s other properties, warning, “We won’t recognize our town in 10 years unless the ordinances are revised.”

Wheat’s Northeast Harbor home, which Decor Maine once called a “classic cottage,” is assessed at $5.2 million. Wheat owns the home, called “Mainstay,” with Allen D. Wheat, the former chief of Credit Suisse First Boston, who was fired in 2001 shortly before the firm agreed to pay $100 million to resolve a federal investigation into alleged abuses related to initial public offerings during the dotcom bubble.

Two other nearby parcels of Mount Desert property worth a combined $2.7 million and owned by separate LLCs have tax bills listed as “care of Lynne Wheat.” The tax bills for all these properties associated with Wheat are sent to a $96 million Palm Beach mansion owned by billionaire Thomas Peterffy. In 2018, Peterffy and Wheat made a donation to an auction for Friends of Acadia in the form of a dinner for 16 “at their new residence” in the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere on Park Avenue in New York.

In an email, Lynn Wheat declined to comment.

Lamont Harris, a plaintiff whose great-grandfather Henry Flagler co-founded Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller, also owns a property on Smallidge Point Road. Harris’ summer home is assessed at $4.2 million. He also owns a $5 million house in West Palm Beach, Fla.

He signed a letter, with several opponents and other plaintiffs, that said the project was “not consistent with neighboring homesteads” and “anyone driving around this project location can see that the homes in this section of Northeast Harbor have an abundance of acreage and open space around each single-family home.”

The Monitor was unable to contact Harris.

Throughout the process, he has mostly let the group’s attorney, Grady Burns, do the talking.

“This proposed density is substantially larger than any comparable parcel in the area,” Burns said during a June 2023 planning board meeting. “These standards exist not just to make us feel good about the aesthetics of our neighborhoods, they are to protect the interests of property owners who have invested already in this community with the understanding that their neighborhoods, their communities, will change in a way that is measured, that is consistent with their expectations.”

Marc Cannon and his wife Ann, both plaintiffs, bought a house in 2004 for $400,000 that sits about 100 yards from the project. It was recently assessed at $562,000.

“Everybody wants the town to prosper in the winter and everybody wants it to be successful, but you’ve got to be thoughtful about it,” Cannon said during a phone interview, adding that “the lot sat empty for four or five years and 365 didn’t even keep it up. They weren’t mowing the lawn. It looked terrible.” (Mount Desert 365 didn’t mow where the former residents had a vegetable garden, but the group did mow the lawn next to the house, Miller said, adding that she often did the mowing.)

Cannon declined to answer other questions on the record. Last year he retired from his position as chief customer experience officer for AutoNation Inc., a $6 billion publicly traded automotive retailer.

Cannon’s sister, Melissa Cannon Guzy, is also a plaintiff and owns a $1 million property close by. Guzy is the co-founder and managing partner of Arbor Ventures, a Singapore-based venture capital fund. She is also on Jackson Laboratory’s board of trustees.

The plaintiff who lives closest to the project site is Joseph T. Ryerson III.

Ryerson and his wife Barbara (who is not listed in the lawsuit but was involved in circulating the petition) own a home with a driveway that runs parallel to the lot’s property line.

Joseph T. Ryerson III is the great-great-grandson of Joseph T. Ryerson, whose company supplied steel to Ford when it began manufacturing cars. Today it’s traded on the New York Stock Exchange and worth more than $600 million. The Ryersons’ Northeast Harbor home is assessed at $842,500, and they also own a $1.1 million home in Massachusetts.

Ryerson has focused his opposition on the minutiae of the Heel Way project, emails sent to the planning board show, including questions about the capacity of the sewer line. In one email he noted the project could cause “a major disruption for present sewer easement holders, not to mention significant environmental damage to an area historically natural and unspoiled in appearance, enjoyed by present easement holders for walks, and being a pathway to and fro for deer, fox, felines, turkeys and others.”

The Ryersons declined to comment when a reporter knocked on their door last month.

Nearby, in the driveway of a house directly across Manchester Road from the Heel Way project, Bill Newlin Jr. had a different take. Explaining that his parents owned the home (assessed at $3.2 million) and that his extended family has summered in the village for decades, he said his family had no problem with the project.

“We’re very cognizant of the need for affordable housing,” Newlin said. “What are we going to do, oppose it? That’s not a good look.”

Last year, Ned Herrington, a lifelong summer resident of Northeast Harbor who recently started at Stanford Law School, started a petition in support of the Heel Way subdivision after reading the petition against the development, which he thought “painted the summer residents in town in a terrible light.”

He wanted to show the planning board “that the summer residents weren’t a monolith.” The petition was signed by 225 people.

“I think these NIMBYs are operating against their own self-interest,” Herrington said. “They just don’t realize that if the winter community and the town suffer, that will cost them, too.”

The town of Mount Desert has a unique dynamic, although one common to communities with seasonal residents who own expensive properties: Summer residents pay the lion’s share of the taxes, but because they are not year-round residents, they can’t vote.

Despite a 20 percent increase in the town’s total property valuation between 2022 and 2024, Mount Desert’s mill rate increased by about 15 percent in the same period. Meaning the town had to raise taxes even though it had more money coming into its coffers.

“You have to pay a higher premium for wages to convince people and make it worth their while to come down,” said Lunt, the town manager. “So the property values go up, also the costs of the government go up.”

In 2021, the local nonprofit Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service notified the town of Mount Desert that it couldn’t continue to operate. The town’s dwindling year-round population had made recruiting enough volunteers impossible.

So the town took over ambulance and EMS duties in 2022. It expanded the fire department, enlarging its roster from four to 14 employees, renovated one fire station and rebuilt another, adding quarters, bunks and day rooms. The final price for the facilities was around $6 million.

Responsibility for building out this new organization fell to the fire chief, Michael Bender. He had to hire a dozen or so new staff members, but hasn’t been able to fill the last paramedic position. They’ve advertised the job nationally for two years, Bender said, but have had no luck, despite paying some of the highest wages in the state.

“When people start looking at and researching the housing here, they realize they can’t afford to live here,” he said.

About half of the department’s staff live on the island; the other half come from farther away. One drives in from Old Town, north of Bangor. It’s about a 55-mile drive each way, taking nearly three hours round-trip.

Even caretakers who look after seasonal properties while owners are away seem to be moving off the island, Bender said.

It used to be that if the department responded to a fire alarm in the middle of the night during the off-season, they could find someone nearby who had a key to the residence.

Now, he said, “sometimes we’re waiting half an hour for somebody to come from off island.”

As the lawsuit awaits a decision from Maine’s high court, change is happening at Mount Desert 365. In the spring, the Rales brothers resigned from the group’s board.

New board president Rick Savage — a lifelong Northeast Harbor resident, chair of the Mount Desert harbor committee and owner of a chartered boat tour company — supported the Heel Way project in communications with the planning board before joining the organization.

For now, he said, Mount Desert 365 is putting the Heel Way project “on the back burner.”

He wants the organization to pivot to a “much smaller” project on one of its other nearby properties on Summit Road, which would likely be a duplex, as a sort of proof-of-concept.

Mount Desert 365 has also met with some plaintiffs, who “offered to drop the lawsuit if we would make concessions,” Savage said. “I don’t think the board is in a position to make any concessions.”

But the group is in the process of assembling an advisory board, and is considering some of the plaintiffs as potential members.

As for the Rales brothers, they took a step back because they had become a lightning rod for criticism, Miller said.

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Meanwhile, the summer season is winding down. Kids are back in school, and visitors are limited to what some in the local restaurant business call “newlyweds and nearly deads” — tourists on either side of their child-raising years. By the end of October, the stores will close up and the multi-million-dollar yachts will leave for warmer climes.

Anastasia, the Acadia maintenance worker, is holding out hope for the project despite opponents’ fears.

“It’s not reality that they’re fearful of,” he said. “It’s not a justifiable set of things that are legitimate concerns.”

It’s not just that the bad things predicted by the naysayers won’t happen, Anastasia explained. It’s that good things would happen.

Should the Heel Way project succeed, he said, the community would be enriched by more year-round residents taking an interest in their surroundings and their neighbors: “It’s year-round housing for year-round people who call this place home.”

He said he often walks by the Heel Way property in the winter. He can see the houses of the neighbors, some of whom have gone to great lengths to stop the project. The lights are always off, their houses cold and dark.

“They’re all empty,” he said.”

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Monday, May 1, 2023

Today is our first full day in London. That means I get my second most favorite meal of the day, Full English Breakfast!! Yes, there is no other food pleasure than a full fry up of eggs, bacon, Cumberland sausages, roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and beans. YES BEANS!!! After breakfast, we head out to the tube station and head over to the Royal Mews. Sherri and I have been here before, however; it has been a few years and Cindy and Alisa have never been and I will never say no to visiting a place that was near and dear to the late Majesty Queen Elizabeth. We saw the coaches and heard via audio guide the history behind each of them. Seeing the golden carriage that will carry Charles and Camilla next Saturday was surreal. Along with the State coach that will carry William, Catherine and their children we saw some other interesting coaches, and a sled that was gifted to Queen Victoria as she loved to sleigh through the castle grounds in the winter. After viewing the mews, we end up in my favorite place, the gift shop! This is usually a dangerous place for me, however; today is particularly dangerous because there are so many incredible Coronation memorabilia that I cannot say no to!! We bought way too many Christmas ornaments, as well as the official Coronation Guide and a few other things. Sherri and I did some serious damage. But this isn’t enough, we head over across the street to another shop as we learned they unearthed a few of the official Jubilee mugs which Sherri and I missed out on last year. They did not know anything about it, but directed us to the shop down the street and off we went and luckily, even though the person I spoke to knew nothing, Cindy found them! We are all on cloud nine and quite chuffed we got everything (and more) than what we wanted. See when Sherri and I came for the Jubilee, we made the mistake of not shopping when we first got to London and as you know, we went out to the Peak District for a week, so, when we returned, there was NO Jubilee mementos left to be had!! So for us to score the mugs was pretty awesome! We headed back towards the tube station, and also stopped off at one of our favorite souvenir shops, Cool Brittania. I picked up something for Zach, and the girls all found some goodies too. We decided to go back to the hotel and drop off what we have purchased and after, we went to Pret a Manger, our favorite sandwich shop, for some lunch. It had started raining now, and everyone was getting out of the rain. But Alisa found a table and luckily, while waiting for Sherri and Cindy to get lunch, some people at a larger table left so we quickly swooped in. We had a nice leisurely lunch and head back to the train. We made our way to Covent Garden to the Apple Market, as we really had nothing else planned for today. There is a Pandora store there right outside the tube station, and they had a collection of Coronation charms which I of course had to have. Alisa also purchased some things as well and then we walked over to the market, as we had been in a smaller Whittard earlier but, they didn’t have much, and this is a much bigger store (actually there are two stores which makes no sense to us), but the selection was much better. Sadly; (or maybe fortunately for my wallet) they no longer carry the beautiful teapots that I have purchased there in the past. But I did pick up some sticky toffee pudding hot chocolate, which I think is a fairy new product. I had told Alisa about the white hot chocolate they have, as it is delish, but I have some from my previous visit and wanted to try this new one. We also went into the Boots there, as I desperately needed nail polish remover as my nails have taken a beating even though I’ve not washed a dish in over a week!!

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Everything You Need To Know About Bond Street

London is a city well known for its shopping opportunities. From the many department stores, shopping centres and high streets, guests at hotels near Cumberland Place have a lot of choice. One of the most prominent options for city centre shopping in London is Bond street, linking Piccadilly to Oxford Street and comprising part of what is known as the West End of London.

The West End has its own character in and of itself, but each area’s imbibed with a distinct identity, offering nightlife, shopping, dining and history across its glitzy streets and busy junctions. Bond Street acts as a connecting tether through the West End but has a lot more to it than just functionality. In fact, Bond Street’s history dates as far back as the Roman era, when the area was settled by the Romans even before the West End had been absorbed by the ever growing Londinium.

Whether you’re staying at 5 star hotels near Cumberland Place or at bed and breakfasts in the East End, Bond Street is often the first port of call for high end shopping. Below you’ll find a first-timers guide to some of the best things to do on Bond Street as well as unique shopping opportunities and landmarks.

New And Old Bond Street

Guests at the nearby Montcalm Hotel Marble Arch might at first be confused by the signage of Bond Street. It’s worth noting that New and Old Bond Street are the same street but New Bond Street denotes the northern side to Oxford Street, whilst the southern side, Old Bond Street links Piccadilly to Burlington Gardens. The entire street runs at only half a mile, but manages to cram a lot into its compact thoroughfare.

Sotheby's Auction House

Dating back to 1744, Sotheby’s Auction House is an historic institution based across the world and now with its headquarters in New York. However, it’s London branch is still the most prestigious and sees high end auctions take place on a weekly basis, covering everything from artworks to ancient artefacts. Located on New Bond Street, Sotheby’s is just one example of London institutions that emanate prestige and wealth in the city.

Givenchy

The London flagship of Givenchy is a staple of the New Bond Street shopping district. This luxury French fashion and perfume brand is one of the most influential in the world and the Bond Street branch attracts the wealthy and the famous on a daily basis. The glass fronted shop in this high end couture district has an ornate and delicate air, drawing in buyers and browsers alike with its distinct scents.

Tiffany & Co

Another ornate and rustic shop front, Tiffany & Co is located on Old Bond Street and deals in china, jewellery and silver luxury items. Tiffany’s is American by birth but this shop has a truly London feel to it.

Burlington Arcade

The prototype of Victorian era shopping gallerias, this historic arcade is home to many luxury shops and independent retailers trading in antiques, footwear and fashion. After recent redevelopment, the Burlington Arcade has been restored to its former glory, enticing even more luxury shoppers to its many quaint shop fronts.

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whatdoesshedotothem · 4 years ago

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Tuesday.. 22 May 1838

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found my cousin come gently half hour preparing one good proper motion much better this morning – Packing – 1st made up the fire – had the washerwoman – très contente d’elle .:. gave her 1/. over which pleased her much – Spa bien tombi – petite peuple here now, pas les grandes comme autrefois – when her mother and she (she aetatis 75) used to wash for the Lady Spencer before she was duchess of Devonshire – for ‘Lady Foster’ Lady Elizabeth afterwards duchess of Devonshire and for the present Duke – for the duchess of Cumberland princess of Orange etc. etc. – the old duke of D- talked to her as I did – ‘les grandes toujours les plus bons’ ........ really a very good woman an excellent washerwoman and very reasonable – breakfast about 10 – and then till 12 10 wrote out the last 8 lines of Sunday the whole of yesterday and so far of today – the garçon said that to make the tour of the 4 sources, would take an hour en voiture and the same à pied as we must make un grand detour en voiture – eh bien! – sent for Henri, and A- and I out 1 20 – 1st tasted the water of the Pouhon spring, crapped with its awkward monument building to the memory of Peter the great – the water a strong chalybeate – then to the hotel des bains, to the bathing establishment the only one in the place – well enough – 12 bains 2 ditto plongeants (like very little swimming baths 4 or 5 yards x 2 or 3 yards?) 4 douches, and 4 bains-chaises (chain baths – large deep-copper or natural basins fixed in an arm-chair that one sits in – immersed about ½ way down to the knees and up to the navel) much recommended now for weakness in the loins – for fames enceintes, begin with the water just warm and soon get to use it cold – the bains ½ on one side, ½ on the other side the quadrant court -nice enough rooms in the hotel part at 2/. per room per day – 2/. a bath including linen – and par abonnement 12 baths for 20/. – Lady --- Wood took a bath here (one of the plongeants) every day from the baths to the Geronstère spring – a very nice about ½ hours’ walk – but A- tired before we had gone far – however we got on – passed the Waux hall – what we had guessed to be the house the King had for 8 days last year – no! he was at the Belle vue left en entering Spa from Liège – warmish – great part of the way latterly thro’ a wood – nice situation on the hill – could have lived here but no accommodation save drinking and walking – a brisk chalybeate – much more agreeable or much less disagreeable water than the Pouhon – no time for the walks – gave our dix sols as at the Pouhon for each tasting and spitting out again the water and came away – Henri Bête had let us pass the Sauvenière spring (close) on Saturday in going to the cascade on Saturday the fellow would worse than ever this morning – he had just dined – and tormented me with his talking – seems to have waited at table on all great people here and elsewhere – and when he went on before us kept a very slightly wavy line path – of course I made no observation on the subject to him, but complained to the mistress of the house on paying the bill – sick of Spa altogether, tho’ it is a very picturesque pretty little well-built ville in a lovely valley, and the hotel de l’ orange very good and comfortable very good cuisine and la blanchisseuse parfait – did not go into on Spa-box shop – contented ourselves with looking in at the windows – bought ½ lb. macaroons for 8 sols French – inquired the price of the description de la grotte de Remouchamps with few lithographs – 10/. too dear – should have had to wait for it (the people little grocers etc. not yet gone to their dress booksellers’ shop as we had heard at the confectioners) – so went to the bank – Mr. Wilten a nice little civil person – exchange 25/35 the season does not in fact commence till June – and Spa (as the washerwoman said and the demoiselle de librairie owned this evening) is much tombé – not the place it used to be du temps de la famille d’Orange – home at 3 ¼ or [and] found I had put my watch ¼ too late - .:. home at 3 ½ - Paid all, and off from the hotel de l’Orange at 4 10 –

at the hotel des bains a nice English shower bath such as Mrs. Sutherland had paid £6 for bought 2nd hand of an English gentleman who brought it to Spa for 80fr. had on it the address of ‘J. Benham 19 Wigmore street Cavendish square London’

Received at the bank for n° 633.75

our old lady of the hotel offered me her torn dirty description of the grotte for 9/. civilly declined this offer saying I could get the work at Paris, and copied the title p. as follows ‘Description de la grotte de Remouchamps située à deux lieues à l’ouest de Spa. Par M. Schols, ancien capitaine d’état-major. Imprimerie de Demanet Rue de L’Evêque, n°19 à Bruxelles’ – off from Spa at 4 10 – at 4 40 fine view of the chateau of Franchimont – and descend and cross the river and drive along it but leave on the other side the pretty village of Franchimont lying at the foot of its castle and enter Theux at 4 ¾ picturesque little town – drive thro’ it in 5 minutes, and just out of it re-cross the river by good wooden bridge and have a few drops of rain – the valley opens about Theux (on both sides of Theux) then narrows again and wooded and well villaged and several good houses with lodges and pretty! factories – the neat church of [?] very striking and picturesque perched on the top of a hill right – a red-painted neat thatched house (near a larger good house) with chimney lower than the rest covered over the top and the sides open in 2 tiers of 3 loop-holes each on every side the chimney might serve as a model for the red room chimney at home – at 5 10 cross the 2 little rivers? at 5 ¼ (regular rain) pass the card-house chateau – the situation very beautiful – wood, rock, river, beautifully grouped hills – the Swiss cottage very pretty – more and more dislike the absurdity of the architecture are of the chateau – immediately about here very beautiful – then the valley opens a little – then closes again – less taken with Chaufontaine [Chaudfontaine] now than as we went – a little place of trade as well as baths – the railroad all along here to Verviers will sadly spoil this lovely valley – at 7 a 2 horse diligence trys [tries] to pass us – a race – our postboy beats then lifts his jacket lap in exultation as if to say kiss my ---- at 7 5 cross bridge over Ourté [Ourthe] and Vesdre? – abundance of

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orchards all the way from Spa – but from Chaufontaine [Chaudfontaine] to Liège one continued orchard – well may apples be so plentiful – why not make cider? a good deal of vine-ground about Liège – and a great many little hop-gardens – at 7 10 fine opening upon Liège thro’ the village of ......... pass the ½ finished Casino and bridge over river ------- Ourte [Ourthe]? and pass the barrier gateway and at 7 ½ enter La ville de Liège – full of people as if a market day – but always the same they say – alight at 7 ¾ au Pavillion anglais – M. and Madame M- there to greet us – order dinner – then to the booksellers, Place Saint Lambert – ½ hour there till 8 ¾ - A- had left me there – not interested .:. tired – dinner at 8 55 to 9 40 demie bouteille bad champagne – bad dinner – A- wrong at my having kept her waiting for dinner what a temper and what a pother but I kept silence and let her go off to bed taking very little notice – fine day till rain about 5pm for a couple of hours – F64 ½° now at 9 ¾ pm A- went soon to bed – I stood reading in my room the treatise on Spa and its water (bought this evening and published at Liège last year) till 11 ½ pm at which hour F64 1/2° as before –

A. Groffroi Langevn n°328 Paris numeros 46. 45. 38 and 39 Carte de Ferraris 1fr. per n° carte of Belgium

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1831 Thurs. 20 January

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F46º at 7 10/.., soft damp morning with a little rain while I was out - out at 8 10/.. to the Muette gate Boulevard de Beauséjour and back at 10 10/.. - dressed - 1 5/.. hour reading Le Temps - breakfast in 25 minutes - 15 11 35/.. had my hair done - had 1/2 hour's nap - Letter from Mariana (Leamington) about 12 1/2 - at my desk at one - read my letter - dated 1/2 down the 2nd page from Warren's hotel London 3 pages and the ends and under the seal -

Mention of the death of Mr. John Charles of Newton Kyme - neither of the executors can act with her Mr. Charles (John late the banker) residing out of the kingdom and writes Mrs. Charles to Mariana ‘Mr. Raper you know from his conduct is banished [from] the kingdom’ Death of your old and faithful housekeeper Mrs. Tatham - William Milne not well - inquired after the school recommissioned by Miss MacLean (my poor dear Sibella) Miss Clomels, Yorkgate, much pleased with it - expense till the age of 14 or 15 £100 a year and Mariana will make a sacrifice to send her niece there - of course as I ought to know I have not much to expect from her in the money way

Mr. Willoughby Crewe writes her that the people began to threaten in Cheshire - she had thought much of what I told her about returning to England - I shall most likely be at 'home in July which perhaps is the best place for us to be together in' such a chance as Scarbro' 2 years ago is not to be expected -

“If your aunt's health will admit of a return to England possibly she might sit down comfortably at Shibden - certainly such an arrangement would set you more at liberty than any other, and now that you are in such good luck as to society, and stumbling on eligible companions for seeing all you may desire of other countries, I would certainly have you follow it up - you will not be less inclined to go again, should opportunity offer, and if it should not, it will always be an advantage to both that even one has seen the world"

She thinks 'somehow' the continent will not be long open to us - will 'count the time like a school girl' to July - voila tout on this subject well it is all very well I must make my plans and then tell her them never expecting her advice to help them much - Lady, I mean Mme. de Polignac was a Parkinson daughter says Mariana of the last sister of the present Lord Rancliffe - niece to the Lady of Mrs. Salmon's brother Captain Barrow - from 1 3/4 to 4 25/.. wrote 3 pages and the ends, long, and under the seal, all very small and close to Mariana from 4 1/2 to 6 wrote page 4, and the ends and crossed page 1 and finished my letter to Mrs. William Priestly begun Monday the 10th instant (vide lines 1 and 8 of page 16)

Dinner at 6 10/.. - read the paper - came to my room at 7 1/2 - _twenty five minutes preparing napkin for my cousin came gently between one and two this afternoon - have wrote to Mariana, surprised to find her in London -

"It is impossible ever to count upon anything like fixity in their case, quite as much so as in my own - as to myself, nothing is more settled than when I wrote last - no communication has as yet passed on the subject of returning, between my father and me - but you shall know all as soon as you can - I have no reason, at present, to think my aunt will not be able to bear the journey; tho' it is probably enough, if she does not go next summer, she may never go at all - However, perhaps the chances are, we shall make the attempt - as for my traveling schemes, I see your uncertainty, but I do talk, and must talk of them, because I cannot calculate upon being able to remain comfortably in England - even you yourself, weighing all things justly on the balance, will not, I think, be for my staying longer than necessary beyond the time where we have been as much together as circumstances will permit - my aunt may do very well at Shibden - rien à dire contre - quant à moi, c'est une autre paire de manches - I do not expect the chance of Scarbro' encore, and only ask for 3 weeks, because I think you would have a right to claim the time certain - But we shall see by and by comment tout cela doit d'arranger - as for my 3 possible, just possible traveling companions, I do not count upon any one of them; and all would be very temporary - Lady S- [Stuart] (Gordon) may perhaps be persuaded to go to Spain - Miss Mackenzie is still, I believe, at, or not far from Naples and Miss Pickford is I know not where - and perhaps, after all, [your wid[?]] is as likely as anybody - je n'en sais rien - sufficient till the day etc. etc. and I shall not pother myself by attempting to fin[al] anything till the time comes - I shall be delighted and satisfied to see you, and this will be enough for me -

Poor dear Sibbella! I have lost the ostensible and now, I find, the real object I cared to wait for here; and, I confess, I have felt more than usually unsettled since my last return - I can understand the regret for [totality] - It is a serious thing, more serious than we sometimes fancy, to lose anyone to whom we have been long accustomed - I refuse going anywhere in an evening, for I am not in a humor for it and morning visits I make as seldom as I can - Mrs. Hamilton promised to introduce me to Lady Granville; but she has not yet been called upon for the fulfillment of her promise; and I am in no hurry - now that my mind is almost made up to be off from here in the summer, I am indifferent about things that would otherwise have interested me much - nous verrons - I am not much above concert-pitch; and now that I have done enough of at my accounts for the present (expense of last year not much above thirteen-hundred) I am seriously meditating a return to my little apartment, and turning back to something more mental than the commonplace of rue Godot - By the way, 13 hundreds are more than I wish to spend just now; but, in the status quo, I am quite sure I cannot make less do - economy goes for something in my not visiting this winter, tho' I am not sorry to have this excuse to make to myself"

Mention Kinnersy having changed 5/. for transmitting the money - 'the accounts I have from Briggs are much better than I expected - all my rents were paid' - remember hearing 'my poor dear friend speak of Miss Clomel's (Yorkgate, London) school'. She at one time wished to have her nieces there - 'It is a nice situation, from all I remember about it, a very likely one to suit their people' ask the age of 'Mariana Lajeune' - 'I am glad you think her such a nice girl, and shall be anxious to hear what you determine about her - at her age, she certainly has no time to lose' - ask after Steph - fear she can expect no great advice from that quarter - will inquire about Mme Thomas rue des filles St. Thomas no. 23 Mde des modes - mention have several 2 or 3 times met a lady I should have fancied Mrs. John Raper had I not beheld her to be at St. Bues in Cumberland. Beg Mariana not to forget her French and if she sends little Mariana to Miss Clomel to 'beg that this language may be particularly attended to' - all the rest of my letter chit-chat of no consequence

my letter to Mrs. W. Priestly - chit chat - had received her letter on my return home 'for which I should have made a point of thanking you immediately, had my mind been more at ease' - she would see by the papers the death of my poor friend Miss MacLean 'for the nearness of which I was strangely unprepared - Deceived to the last, she herself was not aware of the real state she was in, till the last 3 or 4 days; and the 1st account that met me on my return was that of her death' - Congratulation on the Sutherlands being returned to Crownest -

'I can easily understand and join in their sentiments on this subject - I am accustomed to give you credit in matters of both of feeling and of judgement; and it is not in this instance that I should be inclined to dissent, in spite of the opinions, the wishes, or the interests of others’

say 'I had a very interesting tour last summer - a week on the Spanish side of the mountains and at the 1st Spanish town found the contrast between the French and Spaniards as striking as that between the French and English on first landing at Calais - from Narbonne to near Marseilles disappointed with the shores of the Mediterrtanian but M- Toulon and Hières made us regret that our arrangements did not allow of our going farther' -

I find my aunt surprisingly well - she had behaved admirably during the revolution, having been much calm and composed than many younger and stronger people - she says she never felt alarmed but once, and that only for a little while when Marmont threatened to blow up the whole street if they did not instantly cease making the barricade, which, however, was completed in the night - we had no fear during the trial of the ex ministers - 100,000 men under arms - sense enough' -

All as quiet here now as the P-s [Priestleys] themselves can be at Lightcliffe - mention Laffitte’s being ruined by the revolution - conclude with

‘I know your time is a thousand (crossing on the 1st page) times better employed than in writing to me, and therefore and therefore only I do not expect to hear from you very soon - If you wait 6 or 7 months, perhaps you may have an opportunity of answering in person - Do not name this to any one but Mr. Priestley because our plans are at this moment not fixed, and therefore not mentioned even to our friends at Shibden - I am too much accustomed to trust to your discretion to doubt it in any case - you may see us both - it depends this time as I told you it did 2 years ago, on my father - I fancy you can read my crossing without much difficulty - I did not wish to write the last sentence where Mrs. Bagnold could read it too easily - my aunt’s kind regards to yourself (had before joined in mine to Mr. Priestley) - and my own, too, and believe me, my dear Mrs. Priestley, affectionately and very truly yours A L- Anne Lister’

dated ‘Friday 21 January 1831’ - from 7 1/2 to 9 1/4 (coffee at 9 20/.. and came to my room at 10 55/..) and from 11 to 11 1/4 wrote all but the first 22 lines of today - did not talk much to my aunt tonight - read her what M- [Mariana] wrote on the subject of our going to Shibden , and said, I took it, that she did not particularly advise but said nothing at all against it - spoke as if hesitating on the subject - but my aunt herself says she thinks it best on all accounts to go - Soft damp disagreeable day - a little rain in the morning while I was out - and gentle rain from about 2 p.m. for a considerable time - F48º now at 11 20/.. p.m. and damp, wet night - raining a little - rainy night -

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euphoriarps · 4 years ago

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Congratulations, Chris! You’ve been accepted to play Alondra Aleman. Please make your page and send it in within 24 hours.

A/N: This was such a difficult decision to make because both Alondra applications were absolutely flawless. Chris, you’re an incredibly talented writer, and I had to stop eating my ice cream midway through reading this because I was so freaking enthralled. Amazing job!

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CHARACTER DESIRED

Alondra Aleman

DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Alondra love her things. She loves her purses, shoes, dresses, loves being able to redesign their home with the finest pieces of art and furniture — and even more, loves the ability to buy them whenever the mood may strike. None of this played a factor in her love for Gabriel, she’d been never left wanting before in her life, but the fact that she married into another wealthy family certainly doesn’t hurt.

Ever since she was a child, Alondra wanted to be able to do anything, be anything, and as a result, she took on all sorts of personalities throughout her youth. As she grew older, her practice had made it easier for her to adapt to different situations, and adjusting to her new life beside Gabriel proved to give it even more use. If being a meek lady is what is required to get the job done, she can plaster on the prettiest smile and bat her eyelashes with the best of them. If a web of lies is what it takes, then she can spin it quickly, easily, without even the tiniest flinch or hesitation. If it requires a harsher hand, well, even better.

The colder aspects of her personality come easier to her, as she’s never been much of a bleeding heart. She enjoys giving back to the communities, and loves being able to do so, but displaying a warmer heart only comes easily around those closest to her — those she’s chosen to welcome into the fold. Otherwise, she’s one of the last people you’d want to have a meltdown in front of. Displays of intense emotion make the woman uncomfortable, and in many cases, downright disgusted. There’s a time and a place for such outbursts, and it’s never in her company.

She loves keeping busy, and when Gabriel entrusted her with handling their legitimate business, it was one of the best things to happen to her. Alondra wants to feel useful, wants to feel power, and most of all, wants the opportunity to show how talented and intelligent she truly is. Over the years, she’s managed to do just that, and she relishes in the respect it commands.

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Heels clicked against cement as Alondra descended into the basement of their most recent acquisition. A hotel. They’d owned it only about four months, by now. She was accompanied by three other men, two of which were her “security,” while the other was the manager of the hotel. Gabriel had wanted the property, so he’d gotten it, and left it up to Alondra to redesign it according to her image. She’d kept most of the employees; they knew the business, the area, and had upstanding reputations. Or so she thought.

There were many things that angered Alondra, but nothing like when someone was disrespectful, when someone thought they could play her as a fool. Lessons had to be taught. People had to be kept in line. So when a manager, hearing rumors of how the Aleman’s made a large portion of their money, thought they could try to skim some off the top for themselves — well, Alondra intended to handle that personally. No one besmirched the Aleman name, and they most certainly didn’t do it on their own property.

Mr. Anchoridge, the man in question, was clearly nervous, because these types always were when they fucked up. They lacked a decent poker face. They lacked a spine. And when they reached the bottom floor, he huffed out a shaky chuckle. “Weird place for a meeting. We renovating this floor?”

Concrete covered nearly every surface, the hallway they were in leading to a wide open space. Plumbing snaked along the ceiling, leading one to the far back, where water heaters and a furnace stood like guards over the boxes stacked in the center. It wasn’t the worst idea. But then again, it was worth it to have an entire floor unoccupied — for meetings such as this.

“Oh, don’t play dumb, Mr. Anchoridge. I understand you have a penchant for stupidity based on what’s led us here… but I’d stop while I was ahead, if I were you.”

“Mrs. Aleman, I didn’t — please, don’t tell Mr. Aleman. I know it was stupid. It’s been a hard time for my family…” Stupid was an understatement. He’d stolen. He’d stolen before he was even fully aware of who he was dealing with.

“Oh, don’t you worry.” She placed a hand delicately on his shoulder, lips curling into a saccharine smile. “I would never bother Gabriel with something like this. I’m absolutely certain we can come to a resolution without him. And he would truly just be… so disappointed. I really hate disappointing him.”

“I shouldn’t have done it. I won’t ever again. I’m sorry. It was stupid. I’m sorry. I need this job. I —“ He was interrupted, not by a sound, but a look. Alondra’s face contorted with annoyance, lips twisting into a slight sneer as her foot, her Valentino’s, landed in a puddle.

“Isn’t this your job? Is that a leak?” Marco, one of her security, held out a hand for her to place her own into, balancing on one foot as she investigated the state of her designer heels. Desmond, the other, handed her a handkerchief, which she used to lightly dab the moisture of its surface. Water dribbled down from the piping above, forming a disgusting yellow tinted pool in the middle of the hallway, blended into the floor by the abysmal florescent lighting.

“I was going to make a call about that this afternoon.” His voice was shaking now, quivering under the stare of her, of the two men at either side of her — of the knowledge that he’d fucked over someone he really shouldn’t have. If you thought the rumors were true…

You should have known better.

“It’s alright. This is all new, right? New place. New owners. Takes adjusting. So sometimes, an example needs to be made, don’t you think?” That sugar-coated smile returned to its throne upon her lips. No anger radiated from her, despite it burrowing deep in her chest. There wasn’t any bite to her tone. It was as sweet as her features, soft and velvety. Comforting. Welcoming.

“Take care of him, would you boys?” She turned her back on Mr. Anchoridge, flicking a wrist dismissively through the air as she strode back toward the stairs. The two men closed in on the manager, one zeroing in to restrain him, and a crinkle of plastic could be heard as the other got a bag from his back pocket. Alondra didn’t look back again to see the specifics of his death, pausing on the stairs to add, “Make it all look like an accident, of course. And offer his family a nice check and our deepest condolences. We never anticipate such hazards on the job, do we?” She caught a small glimpse in her peripheral; Mr. Anchoridge’s mouth gaping open, a dark hole against the yellow plastic, and that was that.

Back to business.

Her assistant, Rose, met her at the door, balancing a tablet in her hands as she handed Alondra her coffee. Rose’s eyes never left the device as she walked beside Alondra, “You’re meeting with Mr. Cumberland is in twenty. I have lunch waiting for you in the car, it’s outside waiting. They just need you to stop by the restaurant and make sure the menu is in order.”

“Thank you, Rose.” Alondra’s shoe squeaked as they hit the marble flooring of the main lobby, and she let out an exasperated sigh, “And a pair of a new heels, please? Apparently, we have some leaks.”

“Absolutely, Mrs. Aleman. Right away. I’ll be waiting in the car by the time you get back from the restaurant.”

Rose had always been reliable. Timely. She got things done for Alondra before she was even asked. Organized. She anticipated needs, like now, when she was ready with her favorite coffee, lunch, and an air tight schedule. And with Mr. Anchoridge’s exit, they had an opening. As she was about to depart, she stopped, a manicured nail hovering in the air as she pursed her lips, eyeing the woman beside her, “How long have you worked for me now?”

“Just over three years.” Even now, Rose’s eyes never left the screen, tapping away as she rearranged her calendar.

“Why don’t clear some space for us this afternoon? Get together some resumes for a replacement assistant.”

“Wha- Mrs. Aleman, did I do-“ Finally, she did look up, brow furrowed in shock, her fingers already beginning to tremble as they lingered near the screen.

“Oh. No, darling. You just earned yourself a promotion.”

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Jean White

Deming Street, Woodstock NY, Tuesday January 17, 2019

Juliet: What first brought you to Woodstock?

Jean: I was born here. My grandmother, Sarah MacDaniel Cashdollar was born and grew up on Overlook Mountain. She married a young man, Wilbur Cashdollar and they came down to the village to start married life. They rented the cottage from Mr. Lasher which is now The Woodstock Library. After a year or so, they were expecting their first child and returned to the mountain to be near the family.

Juliet: “The mountain”, as in, MacDaniel Road…

Jean: (laughs) Yes, my mother was one of seven children She worked with my grandmother at the boarding house (now Cumberland Farms). Earlier, because Sarah had five daughters she thought they would be able to manage the telephone switchboard which was in the building on the corner of Neher and Tinker Streets. And then, through the efforts of a family friend who spent much time in New York City, my mother Ethel took an intensive course with Harper Method, a new system developed for hair and beauty care. She had what we think was the first beauty shop of it’s type in Woodstock in a corner section of the house immediately behind Joshua’s on Tannery Brook Road.

Juliet: Do you know how your parents met?

Jean: It must have been about 1930. My father worked for a construction company. He was from North Carolina. You had to go wherever the jobs were. So he came and was living at the Woodstock Hotel. It was on the site of the present Longyear Building at the corner of Rock City Road and Mill Hill. There was a fire there, and the hotel burned. He came down and stayed at the Homestead Boarding House and that’s how they met! They bought the house across the street before I was born. I do remember it having a garage and an outside toilet attached to the garage. We did have a bathroom inside, but I’m not sure if it was added after they bought it or if it was already installed .

Juliet: Did you live in any other residence while you were growing up?

Jean: No, but we did go to Ohio with my father. He was working on Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton. My mother, sister Susan who was about 2, and I went with him for about a year or so. We were there during Pearl Harbor Day. When my brother came along, my father just went by himself when he had to go to jobs and we remained in Woodstock and attended school. He had a very early death. He was killed in an accident when he was 40. My mother raised the three of us by herself with the love of family. There were very difficult times but the love we shared held us all together.

Juliet: What is your first memory of Woodstock?

Jean: You know in some psychology classes they ask “What is your first memory?” I remember the sand box by the old apple tree in our back yard.! But of Woodstock itself? It was always a part of me. My grandmother lived across the street. There was a constant back and forth, with very little road traffic. I used to go up to little grocery store where the Joyous Lake was, owned by brothers Leslie and Clyde Elwyn. Their houses were right down on Pine Grove just before the Women’s Health Clinic. The houses are next to each other and the same design. You can still see them! I was thinking this morning, the store had a little meat department in it. My mother would send me with a note and list. There was a ramp that was fascinating to me. I think it’s gone, but maybe underneath it’s still there. You would enter the store by going up a ramp running along Mill Hill Road and then enter the store on your left. It was made of cement. So my earliest memory was that I was always living here and I can’t really put my finger on it.

We went to school near the corner of Deming street. Deanie’s Restaurant was on the corner. It was a brown rustic looking building then. Right next to it is a red building, I think it’s Castaways. We went to Kindergarten on one end of it, then first and second grade on the other end.

Juliet: And then you went to the one that was right by your house.

(Her home was between what is now CVS and Ulster Savings Bank. The former school building still stands right behind CVS)

Jean: That’s right.

Juliet: Did you graduate high school here?

Jean: No, Woodstock only went to eighth grade. Then at that time, we went to Kingston.

Juliet: WOW.

Jean: I’m not sure how that worked because there were no school buses. I guess the Township paid the bus company Pine Hill or whatever it was then. They were black and white buses. They would take us down with the commuters and everybody. After 3 o’clock the buses would all come behind the high school to pick us up. It was the same building as Kingston High school today, although they’ve added on a lot!

Juliet: When did you leave?

Jean: I graduated high school in ’52 and went to Pratt Institute Brooklyn for four years. There were some circumstances during that time … I became very interested in Native Americans. I decided I’d like to go and teach on a reservation. It was a big megillah to get certified to do that. They didn’t certainly need an art teacher, which was my training. Through a long haul, one of my professors said “Why don’t you just go to Washington, and the Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and just see? You’re not making any headway writing letters.” So I made an appointment and I went to Washington. They told me “You have enough credits to be a Guidance Advisor” (laughs) “Would you go wherever you’re needed?”. So by that point I said “YES”, and I went to Arizona. I was a guidance advisor but I ended up teaching first grade for half a year because the teacher they hired didn’t get there until January.

Juliet: Where were you exactly?

Jean: Keams Canyon, Arizona. It was 88 miles from Holbrook, Arizona. 100 miles from Gallup, New Mexico. They were the two closest…metropolises. It was the Hopi reservation surrounded by the Navajo. The children at the school were Hopi and Navajo primarily. There were also some Anglo kids from a few teachers.

Juliet: What was your path back to Woodstock?

Jean: I really wanted to have more adventures so from there I drove the car back to Woodstock and was here for the summer the next year. I had gone to an Art Education conference in Los Angeles while I was on the reservation. I took the bus there. I met a rep from Special Services Department of the Army. They had wonderful job opportunities in Korea, Germany, and France. I thought “Oh, Korea is only a year, I’ll go there”. So I signed to work with enlisted men’s dependents. It wasn’t for officers. The idea was to keep them from getting mixed up in drinking in the towns, and causing trouble. That all got changed after I went to New York to have all the shots for Korea. The program in Korea was ‘frozen’ and I went to Germany for a year and a half. I met a man who became my husband. We got married here in the Dutch Reformed Church and moved to New Jersey because that was where he was working. I had some art teaching experience there with some good administrators. We were married about 23 years and then divorced. I continued to come to Woodstock all during this time. My mother lived here in a little house just off Elwyn Lane and my dear daughter and I would come for summers and weekends. She and her husband built a lovely house on Plochmann Lane. Eventually, I met a really nice man. He loved the theater and he didn’t want to be too far from New York. I said “You might like Woodstock”. We kept coming up and looking for a place to live. Someone told us about a house on Broadview which was out of our price range. As we drove down Deming Street we saw a little sign on this lawn that said “For Sale”. That would have been the late 80’s, we bought this house in ’89.

Juliet: So I could ask you what you think has changed since 1989, but you’ve seen everything in the last seven decades.

Jean: You know I’m very grateful Juliet, for one thing. It’s terrible that buildings were torn down, my house and the Homestead because they were very nice buildings with lots of character. What’s in place of them you know, parking lots and Cumberland Farms… but I think those incidents maybe kind of spurred the zoning process into action. I’m not sure. I don’t think they were so willing to allow people to tear down buildings after that.

Juliet: I think it really must have changed the flavor.

Jean: Where Bradley Meadows is was just a lovely open field. My mother and father, just before he died, had signed papers to buy a little house that was right next door to them which had been the Christian Science church. It was very small, built in 1920, on this side of our house right there where CVS is. The congregation had purchased the former summer school of The Art Student’s League of New York where they are now, across from the hardware store. That was built in 1912 and they vacated it in ’22. My parents bought that little church next door and they rented it. Eventually they sold it to my aunt and uncle. I remember one night, when I was about 13 … I was ironing in that house, looking out. I saw in Bradley Meadows, a flame. I ran over to my grandmother’s across the street. There was a man who lived in the back in a little studio next to the garage. He ran out and we saw it was a hammer and sickle burning. That was startling to me to see that. This would have been the late 40’s. At that time, the Ku Klux Klan was burning crosses on the other side of town, periodically. I never saw it but I heard about it.

What I was going to say that what I”m really grateful for is the businesses that have gone into the houses along Mill Hill Road and Tinker Street who have tried to to keep them as much as it works. I like that. I so appreciate the people who came into town in the sixties and created their businesses and contribute to the community. And they are a part of the community. Whereas today I see more people coming in speculating and grabbing up real estate and wanting to make money from the Woodstock name. It’s too bad I think, because I don’t see a whole lot of becoming part of the community. There is a sense of “What can I get out of Woodstock?” rather than “How can I become a part of this wonderful vital diverse community?” The special aura that has brought folks here for many years is the appreciation of the quiet beauty and spiritual nature of this creative place… this Woodstock.

There are about 6000 residents and I’m not sure if this is correct but I think it’s 60% of homeowners are part time people. So that leaves a small amount to do the Fire Department, the Rescue Squad, all of those volunteer things. It’s unfortunate. Woodstock more or less has a population that leans on the older end of the age scale. We need more young people, more families.

It’s still lovely to walk around Woodstock. I must say I know fewer and fewer people. I think it’s unfortunate that folks who have lived here for many years can’t afford to stay here and their children are looking at the same picture. Real estate prices have risen from the demand of part time folks or B and B landlords that it prevents a lot of people from being able to stay in Woodstock. These are the folks who maintain our volunteer Fire Department and all the other organizations that support the residents..

Juliet: What is your favorite thing about living in Woodstock?

Jean: I have always loved the interaction with people from all walks of life. When I was working at Deanie’s in the summers, the theater would be open, the Playhouse. The actors would come up after the performance, the bakers would come out from the kitchen and there would be a song fest, right there among the tables! It was just a marvelous interaction of people. I have always loved that. I have lived in New Jersey in suburbia, where so much is the same, people seemed to be so much the same.

It’s just like a little world here in Woodstock. I know it’s not that complete of a melting pot, but it’s getting there. We are more and more diverse. I guess that’s what I like. There’s so much activity. You can find anything if you want to go out and do something. Everything from poetry reading to gymnastics classes and meditation groups and whatever. Woodstock as you know has such a big volunteer community. We were active in Meals on Wheels for several years. You had teachers and realtors and homemakers working. I like diversity and…the strong personalities!

Juliet: YEAAAAH! (we both crack up laughing)

Jean: I just hope Woodstock is able to maintain itself as a real community where it’s welcoming to those who really want to settle here and be part of the vitality.…

Here’s an illustration, I love this. I would hardly think this would happen: I kept my mother’s little house and rented it for a lot of years. Just before Christmas, the 22nd, a friend who lives on Neher Street was having an open house. So I said I’d go there, and then come back here because I had another event to go to for my stepdaughter. I went to the warm and lovely open house and had a grand time. It was filled with folks I knew and some new friends. When I came back here my phone rang as I was getting ready to go and my tenant who's been there many years called. She says "Jean, the guys from the water department were here and turned off the water. There was a big leak. They are going to call you.” So I said “Okay I’ll stay here”. Larry Allen from the water department called and was so nice and said he was so sorry but it was my responsibility to get that repaired. SO the water is off. Larry gave me names of people I could call and with his involvement, it all worked out within a few days. It was all repaired. But that same day at the open house, the Town Supervisor Bill McKenna walked in to the open house and asked "Is Jean White here?" They said “She was, but she just left” He said “Well, the water pipe at her house burst!” Obviously there's communication between the departments. I just thought that was very nice. I felt a real part of this community. I called Bill. It was Christmas Eve and he was at his office. I don’t know if I would have experienced that if I were a newer person, but I've been around a while. I think getting involved with the community gives you a real home. I LOVE living in Woodstock. There are such interesting and caring people who make Woodstock where I want to be.

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ok ok ok. this would not be canon. prompt: ashara and lucius are invited to to a fancy council thingie to talk about something important, but it is assumed that they are still together. they have to pretend to be in a relationship for it to go smoothly. UST and HEA would be nicest!

ANON. ANON. I know it has been forever but can I tell you how happy this ask made me?? I love Ashara and Lucius so much. So so much. It adds 10 days to my life every time I find out that someone else loves them.

Have some shameless, fluffy fluff, and I’m sorry for the wait :) I am always down for more SFW or NSFW prompts for these guys!

Ashara’s dresses are from this post - her first dress is the bottom right picture, and her second is the one above it (far right of the second to last row).

Pairing: Ashara Lavellan x Lucius Talvas

Rating: Teen for some sensuality, but absolutely nothing beyond that

Note: In an AU of Reckoning, Ashara and Lucius meet again at a Council on Arcane Affairs in a time when prejudice against elves is running high, and must confront the end of their relationship at last.

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When Lucius saw Ashara on the first night the International Council on Arcane Affairs, hosted in Cumberland, he couldn’t breathe. Mostly that was because of the absolute, undiluted rage in her face as she argued with one of the guards hired for the event. He so rarely saw her angry. But also it was also because of her stunning gown - thin gauzy blue folds draping into a small train on the floor, a high waist, a deep V neckline and thin straps made of tiny blue roses, with more scattered throughout the skirts. Her curls were piled on her head in an intricate hairstyle studded with more of the roses. She was stunning. That was why he could not breathe.And because he had not seen her at all in the year since their relationship ended, and yet he still knew the exact place of each freckle on her cheeks.“This is absolutely preposterous,” Ashara was saying as he approached. “I have an invitation to this conference. Of course it includes an invitation to this dance. Aren’t there dances every night this week?”“I’m afraid this event simply isn’t suited for mages of your - kind. Not after what happened in Clermont.”

Ashara’s face, if at all possible, grew more angry. Lucius felt that anger spill over into him. The murky incident in Clermont - blood magic, elven immigrants, illegal Orlesian templars, intrigue at court - had been the fixation of too many people in the last weeks. To think Ashara could have been involved - she had almost worked for Vir'anor, the group involved in the incident, before Enasan’s top university offered her a coveted position - or to generalize what happened there to all elves… it was ridiculous. No one deserved this treatment.What Lucius did next, he did without thinking.He walked up to them, and put his hand on the small of Ashara’s back, the same way he had done a hundred times in the year that they were lovers.“There you are, amata. I know Magister Tilani will be thrilled to see you tonight. I hope these men have not kept you waiting.”Lucius was not sure whose eyes were wider - the guards’, or Ashara’s. Those blue, blue eyes. She smelled like crystal grace, and the fabric of her dress was soft and thin and he could feel her warmth and suddenly the last year, the loneliness, the million ways he questioned his decision to leave her, evaporated.“Oh,” Ashara said. “Emma lath. I thought I could get in without you, but apparently these men do not realize that we are both honored guests tonight in our own right.”“Indeed. We can always speak to Magister Pavus about this, though. Doesn’t he arrive soon?”“That will not be necessary,” the guard said quickly. Then, more grudgingly: “Enjoy your evening.”He kept his hand on Ashara’s back as they passed into an antechamber situated before the main ballroom. She seized hold of that hand and dragged him into a corner of it.“Lucius! I didn’t even know you would be here. That was kind of you. Kind, but unnecessary. I would have gotten around to dropping Dorian’s name eventually. I like your beard.”She had not changed. Her words were quick as her mind and she was so, so close.“It is no trouble. I did not want to see them harm you.”A change came over her - like she remembered, suddenly, that day a year ago when he ended their relationship, saying that he did not want to hold her back from the life she so richly deserved among her people back home in Enasan. She put more distance between them, backing towards the center of the antechamber.“Yes, well. How have you been since - that is to say, how are you?”Things had gone well for him since their relationship ended. He’d made great strides towards his dream of creating a magically-powered printing press, having partnered with dwarven enchanters from Kal-Sharok and merchants in Vyrantium to secure the necessary resources and contacts to make his plan a reality. He had made new friends. He had moved to a nicer flat in Minrathous. But somehow, all of that stuck in his throat, looking down at her now - no longer an abstract idea or memory that he could pretend didn’t hurt him, but instead a real woman - tall and curly-haired and lovely and no longer his.

“I’m well,” he lied. “Shall we go in?”

2.The International Council on Arcane Affairs was formed from a partnership between Grand Enchanter Vivienne and Minaeve, the new leader of the College of Magi, who had taken Fiona’s place after a sudden illness. Apparently they had grown close during their time in the Inquisition. So it was even more ridiculous that the anti-elven sentiment continued to circulate at the event, despite earnest attempts to stamp it out.

Lucius had thought that the whole charade between he and Ashara would be done after that first night. They’d spoken for a while - she still lived with her parents in the capital city of Enasan, she’d made a few friends at the university, her research into the possibility of spirits crossing the Veil without suffering harm or changing their nature was going well - and he’d lingered close to her for some time after that, making sure no one else gave her trouble. But surely it would go no further.

But that was before the protest began outside the grand dome of the College of Magi on the morning of the second day. Before the throng of people flinging mud and rotten food and offal at the white marble, demanding they hand over every single elf mage inside, to answer for the dead Orlesians in Clermont.

Before he heard one of the rabble say: “Most of the knife ears aren’t even staying here. They’re in taverns and inns around the city. We should flush ‘em out of their holes like the rabbits they are. There are only so many inns that give rooms to their kind.”

Lucius’s heart was in his throat. Ashara had mentioned the inn she was staying at that - the Dirty Duck, or the Black Swan - or maybe it was called the Black Swan but locals called it the Dirty Duck -

He found it quickly enough. It was a decent inn but not one of the nicer ones, and it was close to what remained of Cumberland’s alienage. A sovereign got him Ashara’s room number from the bored serving man in the tavern area, and his long legs ate up the steps two at a time.

She was still radiant.

Her hair was wrapped in green silk and she was wearing a long linen tunic and her leg wraps and she seemed utterly bewildered to see him.

“There’s a bit of an incident outside the College,” he said. “A crowd of anti-elven protestors. They were threatening to come and find the inns where elven guests were staying and do -” He felt heat creeping across the back of his neck. “Well, I didn’t wait that long. You shouldn’t stay here. There are so few places in the city that will rent rooms to elves, and if this kind of sentiment continues…”

“Fenedhis,” Ashara swore. Her face fell. She turned and went into her room, and after a moment’s hesitation he followed. “I can’t believe this. Everything my parents fought for. And humans still react this way.”

The door shut behind Lucius. They were alone. In her room. With her rumpled bed. She never made her bed. He knew that because of all the times they’d shared a bed, because he knew the smell of her skin in the morning and what it was like to kiss her shoulder when it was warm with sun -

“I can’t believe it either. It’s ridiculous,” he said, though the words felt like they came from somewhere outside of his body. Ashara was pacing now, her arms wrapped around herself.

“I suppose the easiest thing to do would just be to go home. But that’s what they want. I refuse to be intimidated that way. I’ll go there myself now and tell them that. I have every right to be here, and -”

“Come stay with me.”

Again, Lucius’s words came from someone that was and wasn’t him. Ashara stopped pacing and looked at him, her eyes wide with shock. She was flushed. What was he thinking? He couldn’t ask her to come and stay with him - what would she think?

“Would that even work?” she asked. “Aren’t you and Maevaris staying in one of those expensive new hotels near the center of the city? I don’t even know if they’ll let me in.”

She said it with such bitterness, and he wanted to go back to the college and shake every protestor there by the throat. How dare they make anyone feel this way. How dare they make her feel this way, when she had such a good heart, such a keen mind, so much to give the world.

“I’ll make sure they do.”

In hindsight, the problem that arose next was a rather obvious one.

He forcefully, calmly, told the (human) servant in the entryway that Ashara needed a key to his room, and that she was staying with him, and the servant glanced between the two of them and said:

“I take it this is your wife?”

Of course.

Of course he said that.

Well done, Talvas.

“Yes,” Ashara said, putting her arm around his waist. “I am his bondmate.”

And of course Ashara used the Dalish word for spouse, and her hair was still wrapped so her long, bladed ears were on full display, and her normally wide eyes were narrowed and angry. And of course his heart leapt all the same at how close she was.

This would not end well.

“I’m sorry, you’re going to need to explain this to me again,” Claudia said. “In what universe, present, past, or future, was the only solution to this problem to pretend that you two are married?”

Claudia never did mince words.

Lucius sighed and pinched his temple.

“I already did explain it. The protestors -”

“And you didn’t think to have her stay with Mae? Or to stay with her at her inn until Dorian and I arrived and she could come stay with us? And somehow she didn’t think to mention any of these options either?” Claudia took another long sip of her wine.

“I don’t know, Claudia. It’s all that came to us.”

They were in one of the small sitting rooms in the College, in-between salons and discussions of all kinds. Ashara had gone to a different one from the two of them, and she was not back yet, which had led to the two of them sequestering themselves while they waited. They had not had a chance to talk in private that day before that moment.

“Fasta vass, Lucius. You two are the biggest idiots I know.”

Lucius’s anger flared. “I am trying to help her. To protect her.”

Claudia rolled her eyes. “So did you two sleep in the same bed last night?”

Lucius’s back still hurt from the night he’d passed on the floor. “Of course not. That’s not what this is.”

“Indeed.”

Lucius threw up his hands. “Claudia, this isn’t easy for me. Why would I do something that hurts me, if not to help her?”

Because it hadn’t been easy, lying there that night, hearing the rustle of her in the bed nearby, her quiet sleepy sounds. He was always one to sprawl out in every direction when he slept but he always made an effort to hold her while she fell asleep, when they shared a bed. Did she still have nightmares about what happened in Oruvun? If one woke her, what would he do? He could not kiss her eyelids and her forehead and her lips until her breathing slowed again.

It had not been easy when he woke before her that morning, stood and stretched, and saw that she had kicked off all her covers in the night, and was in her smalls and tunic alone, and he was greeted by the sight of her long legs, her skin nut-brown against the cream-colored sheets, her thighs dotted with yet more of those freckles.

Claudia, for her part, did look shocked at his vehemence. She put down her wine glass.

“I think you should stop and think about why it hurts that much.”

Ashara insisted that he sleep on the bed on the third night, and that she could sleep on the floor. He woke up at one point to the weight of her sitting on the edge of his bed. She said something in Elvhen. Her hand rested feather-light on his shoulder. He found that he could not sleep the rest of the night, waiting for some sign, some sound, that would tell him it had not been a dream. That maybe, just maybe, this was hurting her too. Walking hand in hand through the throngs at the various events in that glittering marble building. Calling each other amata and arasha and husband and wife Averting their eyes or leaving the room when they changed back in their room.

That maybe it was hurting her too because she also wished so badly that all of this was real.

It was on the fifth day that he kissed her, without any premeditation, of course.

The gala that evening ran late, and she was wearing another beautiful gown, handpainted cream-and-rose silk this time, a fuller skirt, and a neckline that plunged nearly to her navel, leaving that perfect expanse of skin between her breasts bare to the warm Nevarran air. She was laughing, stumbling against him, and that was when he saw two or three men coming down the road towards them, rough-looking sorts, angry-looking men, and before he could think of anything else he had pulled her to one side of the road, turned so that she was nearly against the building, and kissed her, trying to shield her from sight with his body. His heart raced in his ears. She made a startled sound - and then she melted against him, her hands on his waist. The men passed them by. He stepped back from her.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I’m sorry, I know this is all supposed to be fake, I don’t know why I -”

She took his face in both her hands and kissed him, and her gown was smooth and cool under his hands but the skin on her back was hot, and when she parted her lips she tasted just like he remembered.

She pulled back, her breath already drawing short. She gestured nervously with her hands while she talked.

“No - I - now I’m the one who’s sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. You had your reasons why you ended things and we haven’t even talked about any of this, and I’m sure I’m just taking advantage of your kindness -”

He kissed her, and he let every ounce of longing, every regret he’d ever felt in the time they’d been apart pour into that kiss. A fine tremor ran through his hand where it rested on the small of her back, and this time they were both out of breath.

“Then let’s talk,” he said.

She beamed at him. “Okay. In the morning. And - I think maybe I should stay in Claudia’s room instead.”

The International Council on Arcane Affairs was full of watching eyes, and naturally people had noticed that the daughter of Fen’Harel and Maevaris Tilani’s protege had been seen in each other’s company and were even, reportedly, claiming to be married. So people did talk when they arrived to the sixth day’s events separately.

But, more importantly, they talked that afternoon, in one of the libraries.

“The moment I saw you,” Ashara said. “The moment you put your hand on my back and called me amata -”

“I know,” he said.

Ashara wet her lips.

“But you were the one who ended things, Lucius. And I accepted that - and - so much of what you said that day hasn’t changed. Your life is in Minrathous and mine is in Enasan. I don’t know that I could ever live in Tevinter long-term. Not as an elf. You could come to Enasan, but things are so unsettled now, after what happened in Clermont…”

She was right. She was. And good things had happened in Lucius’s life since he walked away from her - but as he sat there in a library bathed in light, not quite touching her, he realized that none of them quite compared to the way he felt when he looked in her.

“We’ll figure it out,” he said. “If you are willing to try - I know that I am. I want this to be real.”

“Me too, vhenan.”

She took his hand, and smiled at him, and he realized in that moment - it already was real. It always had been.

They didn’t make it to the seventh day of the council. There were too many other lost days they needed to make up, too many smiles to share, too many plans to make.

Claudia was the one who came looking for them, although when she took one look at them, she had only one word to share: “Finally.”

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