She slowly relaxes in my arms, but it's not without effort. She actively slows her breathing and I can tell she's focusing on relaxing her tense muscles one body part at a time. I run my fingers through her hair, hoping to help her in the process."You're safe. No one will get to you," I murmur, trying to sooth her."I know," she says, nodding into my chest, "I just haven't been outside since everything happened. I wasn't expecting to panic like I did. I couldn't control it.""That's a rational response after what you've been through. It's only been a week, you're doing amazingly well. I'm just glad I can hold you again," I say, relieved."I hated our week apart, but I also couldn't bring myself to talk to you. I just couldn't reconcile the version of you I knew with the new information I'd been given. It was so surreal. You hear things from movies and books. You know to some degree they're based on reality, but it's very different when you're confronted by it in real life," she expla
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