Too late to retreat further into hiding, now (tension flaring in his muscles as she froze, seconds lost to stock-still indecision) and naught else to do but step forward, shadows drawing back from rough-soled boots, from an unremarkable coat, and the face above it (thin-lipped, watchful, uncertain.) ]
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Too late to retreat further into hiding, now (tension flaring in his muscles as she froze, seconds lost to stock-still indecision) and naught else to do but step forward, shadows drawing back from rough-soled boots, from an unremarkable coat, and the face above it (thin-lipped, watchful, uncertain.) ]
...it is I.
[ Would she remember, even. ]