burn between us
When it was done she was quiet for a moment.
"The fire extinguisher," she said.
"Yes," Elian said.
"That was the right instinct," she said. "Not the window. The fire extinguisher."
"I know," Elian said.
"Because the right thing was to stay," she said. "Even when staying was dangerous. The instinct was right."
"Yes," Elian said.
She looked at Dante. "You understood that," she said. "When you saw him."
"Yes," Dante said. "Immediately."
She nodded once — the same nod as Elian's, the same gene, the same specific movement of someone making a decision inside themselves.
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