“Sister Francesca, they announce, has left. Disappeared. Absconded.” I am insulted on Francesca’s behalf. Absconded! I bet Father James said that. Wonder what he’ll say when Philomena vanishes. “She left to turn into a prostitute! You know how she was!”

“But Philomena finds an eye on her windowsill, dangling from a monstrous crow’s beak, and in the endless nightmarish weeks to follow, she will think Francesca was the lucky one.” Yeaaah, Basque and she are going to have some issues. Here I was, writing in her doing a little bonding with the bird and here it is wiggling her friend’s eyeball at her.
Basque in your piece: -wigglewigglewiggle-
Philomena in my piece: -takes back the special treat she got Basque as a surprise-