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The following week Rebecca had several days of vacation. She said it was because her school, which she called "college", gave students time to go home to help prepare for the holiday. The closer we got to the holiday, the more frenzied the cleaning became, culminating in scrubbing the stove and oven clean, and purifying them by turning on the heat as high as it could go. They also cleaned the cabinets and fridge and covered the shelves, and sold me all their old food for a few silver, asking me only to keep it sequestered in my room. Jacob seemed especially happy to receive my Prandian coins, saying something about adding them to his collection.

"It's lucky our parents couldn't come for the holiday this year", Rebecca said while we were sitting down around the table for the holiday feast.

"Yeah, It would have been difficult to either find a way to hide Vivian or explain to them what she's doing here", Jacob agreed.