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But he really canβt deny that any time spent with her is a thousand times better than some stupid mission.
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She offers a tentative smile to his retort, thoughβ¦the hidden meaning in it doesnβt slip past her. She doesnβt snatch it out of the night air & pin it to the conversationββinstead, she watches it pass like a wandering firefly until its light dies.
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The more he rolls that statement over in his mind, the more mind-numbingly boring it sounds. As if it isnβt bad enough that heβs already snuck out, heβs now considering ditching his mission to hang out with Luz.
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