Color returned to her skin. Her movements grew lighter. Warmer. Alive in a way she hadn’t been before.
“You’re afraid of me,” she said one evening.
“I’m trying to understand you.”
“No,” she replied softly. “You’re trying to survive me.”
It happened the first time on the seventh night.
He woke unable to move.
Not paralyzed—held.
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