understood

I’ve never said this out loud to Autumn before; it was just understood that she was my best friend and that she’d be there for me no matter what.

Perhaps it was a way of imagining her close by, for unlike the Babushkawoos’, their nursery was equipped with an actual globe, and they understood all too well how very far away she was.

“Don’t play dumb. Those wolf children of yours understood straightaway.”

By now she understood that the mood in the nursery had begun to curdle, so to speak, and that the cause had something to do with her shutting of the windows.

But when she saw the small, familiar packet that Miss Mortimer removed from her reticule, she understood.