[...so that was it, then. He was really gone. She was talking to a stranger instead of someone she had come to trust with her back - at least in combat situations. He'd proven that she still couldn't trust him to let her make her own choices, to tell her the whole truth, and that was what had kept them from...
Well. Maybe it was better this way. Simpler.
Except now she was talking with a stranger -- or, more accurately, someone who thought of her as a stranger. And she missed her almost friend.]
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Well. Maybe it was better this way. Simpler.
Except now she was talking with a stranger -- or, more accurately, someone who thought of her as a stranger. And she missed her almost friend.]