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What felt like a few days was apparently a month.
Maybe that's not a big deal if you have a door to go through. But if Milliways is your world, a jump in time like that has repercussions.
Serious repercussionsOutside, sitting in the grass by the lake, are two teenagers. One familiar sixteen year old girl with blonde hair. Beside her, a very ( Read more... )
Maybe that's not a big deal if you have a door to go through. But if Milliways is your world, a jump in time like that has repercussions.
Serious repercussionsOutside, sitting in the grass by the lake, are two teenagers. One familiar sixteen year old girl with blonde hair. Beside her, a very ( Read more... )
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He doesn't really... move properly. It's been nearly an hour already, and he's noticeably less... birdlike than he was when they first sat down. But he's still hunched and intense and almost flighty. As if the littlest thing might startle him into flight.
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How long has it been since he was anything but birdlike, in physical behavior? How long since she didn't have to watch herself, to make sure she didn't make any sudden movements to startle him?
...or did she ever not do that?
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Though it's been quite some time since these particular eyes stared at her quite so intently. Unblinkingly.
Almost worryingly inhuman.
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It will.
"Tobias."
Quiet, conversational, glancing only casually away from the lake to meet his gaze with her blue. "Demorph, okay?"
The watch she'd borrowed from the Bar, sitting loose on her wrist, has a timer edging toward an hour and forty-five minutes.
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