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narration: gift/mail/other, zzdrop: desdemona moore, zzdrop: phineas varghest

On Desdemona’s desk, Sunday morning: a meticulously arranged stack of books. Some may have been purloined from the vast collection provided by their new house. Should she inspect, she may discover the titles are, in this order:

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
My Monticello
Love & Other Words
Will in the World
You Truly Assumed
Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes
Go Tell It On the Mountain
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Song of Achilles
Ball Four
With Love From London
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Yours Cheerfully
Truly Devious
Phineas Redux

Serving as a bookmark for the top of the stack is a necklace, which you’ll be very proud to know he snuck onto this island when they moved in and has managed to keep a cheeky secret while he waited for the right opportunity.

Beside the stack is a vase of wildflowers, picked by someone who has never picked a bouquet of flowers in his life but worked very hard to find things that were pretty and did not make him sneeze.

And her usual coffee order as well. He hopes she still takes a flat white, anyway.