Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
That we’d step out, and the bus would be the same, and we would too, and this would blur like a fever dream.
Corvin seemed to read the hesitation in my shoulders.
Whatever else he was, he was very good at reading *me*.
He reached out and, in a gesture almost painfully domestic, adjusted the collar of my shirt where it had folded wrong, fingers brushing the hollow of my throat.
His eyes met mine.
“Whatever this is,” he said quietly, “it doesn’t disappear when the door opens. The game can use it. Twist it. Punish us for it. But it doesn’t unmake it.”