The Surprise Princess
“Either way, he was going after her.
As she started up steep stairs beyond the door, he decided she was, in fact, heading somewhere.
The attic, he realized when his eyes came above the floorboards into an area lit by three light bulbs hanging from the ridge pole.
She walked down the center of the space to under the last light bulb and sat on the floor. He followed, crouching to avoid hitting his head, then sat beside her.
“Katie?”
“After the first of the year,” she said in a voice that remained scary calm, “when there were all those stories about April and King Jozef, with everyone telling me how much I looked like her, I remembered this suitcase. I came up and searched. It was way back in a corner with things from my childhood. Things my fa— Bob never would have bothered with. I was about to give up, thinking I’d dreamed the memory of this suitcase. Then I found it.
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