Rise Of The Betrayed Omega
And now it's just the two of us, and the particular quality of silence that follows when a room empties of everything that was filling it.
I look at her, the thought slipping in before I can stop it—what a small world.
She meets my gaze, something flickering in her eyes, and then she says, “Small world,” like she’s reached straight into my head and pulled the words out.
A quiet breath leaves me, half amusement, half disbelief. “Yeah,” I murmur. “Smaller than it should be.”
There's a beat where neither of us is pretending the situation isn't exactly what it is.