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Sid takes her hand and shakes it. “Sidonie Baker. It’s lovely to meet you.” “You as well.” Isobel’s smile is genuine. “Do you want to have dinner with us?” River asks, as if he hasn’t already set the table for her and thus condemned the three of them to the most awkward family dinner in recent history. “I’d like that,” Isobel says, and River thinks if she says one more polite thing he might just open the window and hurl himself out of it. or, River's mum pays him and Sid an unexpected visit, the ensuing fight changes nothing and everything

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