I Will Find You
I said after a minute, because ordinary has edges you can hold.
He thought. I heard him think—silence with a flavor. “The scar on my cheek itches before it snows,” he said. “Tonight it itched around seven. Make of that what you will.”
“Barometric Alpha,” I said, and he made a pleased hum like I’d coined an acceptable piece of nonsense.
“Your turn,” he said.
“I alphabetize my spices,” I confessed. “Not because I’m organized, but because sometimes the world feels like it’s trying to write itself in crayon on the ceiling and putting cumin next to curry keeps me from setting the kitchen on fire.”
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