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EXTRA GRETEL Chapter 297: Through Time We Grow Grey
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Mum, what's the most important thing in the world?" Gretel had once asked her mother, playing outside on the busy street during the one and only time that she had ever remembered it snowing.
She had spent the day running around, making snow angels on the pavement with some of the other teenage girls humouring her as they skipped from snow angel to snow angel, never disrupting their shapes as they made their way down the street and off to school.
Her mother, who seemed to be at home suddenly for no apparent reason nowadays, had simply flashed Gretel a smile.
"You're the most important thing in the world to me," she called out from her perch on their doorstep, wrapped up in a hat, scarf, gloves, coat, and blanket, not at all like Gretel who only really needed a coat, her face and hands warming up far too quickly if she had been forced to wear a hat and gloves.
"No, not that mum! I mean, in the world, what's the most important thing that I need to get?"
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