RILEYThe bond memory I'd been least prepared for arrived on a Wednesday night in July, at midnight, while I was deep asleep.I woke up in the full dark with it — not gradually, the way dreams fade when you wake, but completely, the way a light switches on. I was in it and then I wasn't and then I lay in the dark carrying what I'd just received.A kitchen. Small, specific, a kitchen I'd never been in. The smell of it: whiskey and the particular staleness of a space that hadn't been aired recently. A window with the wrong-city light coming through it. Knox at a table — not old Knox, not the person I knew now, but the person he'd been at twenty-seven or twenty-eight, the version who had been in the feral period long enough that it had left marks. And through the bond as he'd experienced it that night: the warmth of me at the other end, distant and real, and underneath the warmth, underneath the reaching, a quality I hadn't expected.Shame.Not about leaving — or not only about leaving.
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