titled heat.

[divertissements]

Claude’s nanny introduced the idea of a heat herald, bringer of summer and of summer temperatures, because the weather always would change around Claude’s birthday, May breaking into a before and an after.

Later Claude would adopt the phrase, since she grew into a specific type of person, one who could add a blush to a girl’s cheeks, drum sweats and panting breaths out of a woman.

Meeting the next day with Fanny, she would joke, “The Herald of Heat has inflamed another heart,”and show off a trinket some Mademoiselle Yvette or Simone gifted her.

Like a harvest offering.