Can you trust someone who tried to kill you?Zara got up slowly.Not because she was hurt. Because she was being careful, the way you are careful around something you don't have a category for yet. She brushed off her knees with a practiced gesture that seemed more like muscle memory than actual composure and stood at her full height and looked at Caelith with an expression that had not quite decided what it was yet."Talking," she said. "Right.""Right," Caelith said.Neither of them moved toward the other. The courtyard held its particular nighttime quiet around them, lamppost light pooling on cold stone, the distant campus sounds muffled and irrelevant.Zara exhaled slowly through her nose."I don't actually know that much," she said."Start with what you do know."A pause. Zara looked at the ground briefly, then back up, something shifting behind her eyes that looked almost like a calculation being run."I got a job," she said. "I get jobs sometimes. It's not something I advertise
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