#title from emily dickinson because old habits die harder than my hopes for S2

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And on the strangest sea – (1899, Clémence/Jérôme, 300 words,  G, no real warnings, missing scene from 1x07)

Clémence and Jérôme talk briefly, after the disasters of the storm,

or,

It’s a terrible place, this – descended through the maelstrom, through impossibility, as though she were one of M. Verne’s protagonists! – but there is no wonder here. It looks like a graveyard; it may well be. Clémence’s faltering steps bring her short of the railing, though she cannot say if it is her will which does it, or that the force which halted the Kerberos has somehow stopped her, too. She is not – she is so tired – she was married and now she is a widow; she had hopes of the future, and now –

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