WHAT HE ERASED
Viktor cried, which I hadn't fully expected, though by now perhaps I should have the controlled version of him had quietly stopped being the only version some time ago, and this seemed like exactly the kind of moment the other version had been saving itself for.
"Names," Camille said, eventually, once the room had settled into the particular hush that comes after the largest thing that's ever happened to you turns, briefly, ordinary. "You two have had nine months and I'm fairly sure you've discussed nothing."
"We discussed plenty," Viktor said.
"We discussed nothing," I said. "We discussed the studio wall extensively. We did not discuss names."
Viktor looked at the two of them. Then at me.
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