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[Quiet footsteps can be heard, ascending a staircase, possibly. There's a pause in those steps, perhaps she's reached the top? When Ashe speaks, she sounds breathless, laboured.]

I - I had wondered, given the forthcoming festivities, whether to  - to delay -

[And suddenly she gasps aloud and there's a sharp exclamation of pain and distress. Within moments, a heavy thud follows - alongside a crash as though a vase has fallen and shattered upon the wooden floor, and Ashe has fallen with it.]