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Sera’s POVI read the message twice.Not because the meaning was unclear. Because the specific quality of those four words required a moment of being held before being acted on, the weight of them in the context of everything I knew about Rydan and everything I knew about what the past hours had contained for him.“Faster,” I said.The driver looked at the road and found what the road had to offer in terms of speed and used it, and I sat in the front seat with the phone in my hand and the city moving past the windows and felt the specific quality of urgency that had a direction and a destination attached to it.Vivian was in the back seat and she had heard the word and had seen my face and she didn’t ask questions, which was the version of her I had come to appreciate most.I tried to reach Rydan through the channel I used when I needed to know the quality of someone’s state rather than their location, the specific extension of awareness toward a person I knew well enough to have thei

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Rydan’s POVAn hour later, Sera’s house received us with the specific warmth of somewhere that had been kept ready rather than left to cool.The maids moved with the practiced efficiency of people who had been given instructions in advance and were executing them without requiring further direction. One of them walked me to my room and another had the bath already running by the time I reached the bathroom doorway, the steam coming out into the cooler air of the corridor with the particular quality of something that had been prepared for a specific person’s specific state.I stood in the bath for longer than bathing required.Not thinking, not planning, not running through anything that had happened across the night. Just standing in the hot water with my hands at my sides and the steam around me and the specific, suspended quality of a body that had been through too much and needed the water to be the only thing for a few minutes.When I got out and stood at the mirror, something mad

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