( The split-second glimpse of it is still jarring, but less than it might have been when for days she's worried over he hadn't looked under his skin, hadn't changed his skinβshe had wondered, and now she thinks she sees the answer. How easy it had been for him to appear so differently; it must have been like breathing.
Because he has always done it. She's seen this, she thinks, but then, Coupe has such a particular fucking gift for being at exactly the wrong place at the wrong bloody time. She'd been annoyed they hadn't all been rounded up by healers days ago, but perhaps it was for the best, after allβ )
There, ( she says, quietly, into his shoulder. ) Here I am, now.
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Because he has always done it. She's seen this, she thinks, but then, Coupe has such a particular fucking gift for being at exactly the wrong place at the wrong bloody time. She'd been annoyed they hadn't all been rounded up by healers days ago, but perhaps it was for the best, after allβ )
There, ( she says, quietly, into his shoulder. ) Here I am, now.