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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Words Lost to Memory

Unfortunetely, despite my deep feelings regarding the story of Lupin St. George, in a fit of despair over ever writing for anything or anyone other than my sense of artistic purpose and myself, I threw the interim - a matter of some 15 pages - out.
I have the continuing story, but after most of the interesting and beautiful and anticipated part has had done.
I will synopsize, and hopefully make my way back through the departed pages as time allows... Look for it forthcoming.
Synopsis:
Lupin, frightened by an undeniably forboding sense, flees her townhouse and takes on the guise of a stable boy, only to be hired by Lord Grefham in a strange turn of events. In his stables, she finds Flanders and realizes that despite Lord Grefham's cruelty, lonely ways, and rakish lifestyle, she understands him very well. She learns even more about him during a three month span as his tiger.
After a harrowing attack on her life by a large and runaway carriage while she is waiting for him outside the opera (wherein she manages to save the life of another carriage boy who is too frightened to move in the face of impending doom), Lord Grefham takes her away to the country, where he reveals he knows all - and more. Lord Grefham also quietly and self-deprecatingly proposes marriage. Lupin accepts.
Three weeks of idyllic happiness ensue, wherein walks, embraces, and many conversations are shared - including conversations regarding Lupin's sense that the happiness cannot last. Lord Grefham does not react well to these feelings. He gives her a large ruby signet that has run in his family for a long time. She wears it with a sense of joy.
Lupin begins to have a dream wherein she is standing over Lord Grefham's dead body in a forest, and she knows full well that she is the cause of this death. She tries to put it out of her mind.
Lupin overhears a conversation in which Lord Grefham is arranging to have her erased from all records. She assumes the worst but cannot flee him, her love is too strong. He explains that he doesn't have time to explain, they must leave that morning and marry on the road. There is mortal danger. He promises to tell her later, and she cannot mistrust him.
At the posting house Lupin corners him and makes him explain. He explains that he, in fact, was the last man to gamble with her father and won her from him before her father took his own life. Not only that, but he also knows there was a rumor circulating that her father had a great fortune hidden somewhere, which he meant to leave to his daughter. Thus the attempts on her life.
That night Lupin awakes from the dream of Lord Grefham's death once again. She cannot make it stop. She knows she must flee him to save his life, even if it means sacrificing her own. She leaves her ring on her pillow cover and takes a horse from the stable, leaving a few coins in return. She is no thief.
She runs to London, to her townhouse, hoping she can find some money with which to keep running. She finds that her Uncle Mortimor is there. Aunt Harriet has died, and left Lupin with her entire fortune. Lupin is now rich. Lupin does not care. Lupin must get away as soon as possible. Uncle Mortimor reveals that Lupin's father also had the gift of highly honed intuition, and promises to help her escape those that are trying to make attempts on her life.

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