❛ HM, do you think we should change the drapes? they are so heavy. ❜ she sighs. a soft thing, as gentle fingers lift the dark & heavy fabric. dust billows up. she smells summer & the warmth. but they are heading into AUTUMN. but summer is love, & she is filled to BURSTING with it, as she jerks the drapery OPEN, letting sunlight wash merry-light into the darkened halls. how could ANYONE live in such a place? ah, she remembers her home, her sisters, where everything was ALWAYS SUMMER, no matter how cold or hungry they were. ❛ i am thinking of something cream, don’t you think? cream & lacy. oh! i had always wished for some cream & lacy drapes. but i never got the chance. they are ridiculously expensive. i would take antonia to see them, when we were only little. i think she liked them even more than I. ❜ lacy drapes were such a wonder to her, back then. just like a home, just like LIFE.