[A smile – halved and impish – followed by the faintest of nods, and then she turns and walks away, weaving through the crowd of dancers awaiting the next song, then slipping out through the door. There's a flutter in her chest that would have bothered her once for the way it distracts from so much else, but this time she allows it to expand unimpeded, as she had done all those weeks ago in the cave.
Its fluttering then, though of a different nature, had freed her, too, and for all the traces of her former life that she wears either like badges or like scars, that freedom to be herself is at once the most daunting and the most enticing.
He'll find her where she said she'd be, stark dress and starker hair standing out against the subdued walls. As prone as she is towards filling any gaps of inactivity with one productive thing or another – perusing the network, answering messages, doing what little research she hasn't done yet – this time she's just waiting, focusing on nothing at all aside from how this mood began and how it might end. When Jeremiah arrives, that focus draws her to him like it's magnetic, and she moves to meet him halfway.]
Where will we be going? Or do you intend for it to be a surprise?
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Its fluttering then, though of a different nature, had freed her, too, and for all the traces of her former life that she wears either like badges or like scars, that freedom to be herself is at once the most daunting and the most enticing.
He'll find her where she said she'd be, stark dress and starker hair standing out against the subdued walls. As prone as she is towards filling any gaps of inactivity with one productive thing or another – perusing the network, answering messages, doing what little research she hasn't done yet – this time she's just waiting, focusing on nothing at all aside from how this mood began and how it might end. When Jeremiah arrives, that focus draws her to him like it's magnetic, and she moves to meet him halfway.]
Where will we be going? Or do you intend for it to be a surprise?