I ran into him coming out of the training hall.Sweaty. Hair damp. Shirt hanging open at the collar. He saw me in the corridor and stopped dead and looked at my face and a grin started building on his that he did not even try to contain.I kept walking."Amara.""Kade.""You look different.""I look exactly the same.""You really do not." He fell into step beside me without being invited. "You look like someone who had a very good night."I said nothing."A very good night," he said again, slower this time, like the emphasis would land differently the second time around."Kade.""Yes.""Find something else to do."He did not find something else to do. He walked with me all the way to the east corridor junction and when I turned he stayed at the corner and called after me."Week two," he said. "I called it week two. I want that on the record."I turned around.He was standing there with both arms crossed and that grin and something underneath it that was more genuine than the teasing,
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