Until the Dawn
“With twelve professors, six bodyguards, and the three Vandermarks, she was cooking morning, noon, and night. No sooner had breakfast been served than she started lunch. Each day, she baked six loaves of bread. She sliced meat and cheese until new muscles began forming in her arms. Pieter kept her supplied with baskets of blueberries and cherries for pies. Walking the two miles to and from the village each day sapped her already flagging energy, and it became apparent she ought to move into the ...house while the research teams completed their work.Her father consented only because Florence was there. She and Florence shared a bedroom on the top floor of the house, and Sophie now had more time to spend with Pieter. The boy was fascinated by the biologists and loitered at the river to watch them each day. He peppered them with endless questions about birds and plants and what made the sky blue. Sophie was curious, too. She had never done particularly well in school, but these men seemed to know everything about nature, and she soaked up the knowledge they were happy to share.No matter how busy her day, each afternoon Sophie found time to join Quentin on the outcropping above the river.MoreLess
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