Elisabeth:
Do you know about Firelight?
Louisa:
What about it?
Elisabeth:
It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.
[
blows out lamp]
Elisabeth:
You can do what you want, say what you want, be what you want, and when the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten it never happened.
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