A hawk and a girl sit at one of those tables in the bar that's conveniently out of the way. In the corner where there's not too much foot traffic. It makes it easier for the hawk to stay calm
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For once, Rachel hasn't actually been putting off talking. Not consciously. It's just that it's a lot easier to talk to someone when they're willing to talk back.
Tobias is perched on the back of a chair watching her. It's not the intense animal stare that had been all he'd been capable a week before, but it was still intense.
His words, when they eventually do come, are aprupt.
The stare is something she's gotten used to. He's looked at her like that for years now, if not for so long of a stretch. But that's another thing Milliways is teaching her - how to be in his company for so long, with nothing more pressing than each other's company.
And certain topics.
Blue eyes dart up to him the moment his voice is in her head but Rachel doesn't speak. Partly because her throat has already tightened.
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Or capable of it.
She's not sure which applies anymore.
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His words, when they eventually do come, are aprupt.
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And certain topics.
Blue eyes dart up to him the moment his voice is in her head but Rachel doesn't speak. Partly because her throat has already tightened.
She knows, already, what he wants her to explain.
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He simply sits. And waits.
The fact that she didn't answer immediately tenses him up, though. And it's obvious.
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