Silver Rejection
One small exhale, barely visible, and something in him went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with peace.
The gold left his eyes.
Not gradually. It pulled back all at once, like a tide that came in too fast and overcorrected. Silver replaced it, cool and certain, and the man looking at me then was not the man who had taken that one step forward.
This one had already made up his mind.
I looked down at my hands.
My nails had broken the skin on both palms. I had not felt it happen. Four small marks on each hand, barely bleeding, the kind you make when you hold on too hard to something that was never yours to hold onto.
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