“I haven’t so quickly forgotten your ability to adapt,” she smiles, amused. She does believe it, and in him, that he will find solid ground under his feet if he just allows himself the time to adjust to this new city. Probably, she thinks, quicker than she had managed to do so.
That lean toward her, rather than away from her stops her breath, makes her heart stutter in her chest at the unexpectedness of it. Fingers loosely touching is one thing, this is a different thing altogether.
All sense of language and speaking dissolves— is this real? It can’t be, can it? He wouldn’t— he couldn’t. She mutters something in Suli that he won’t understand and, slowly, every so carefully, she pulls away from him, just far enough she could look at him properly.
“Anyone,” she whispers softly. “You could just… be.” He would have the room here, the space for it, to be… Kaz. No rumors floating about, no reputation attached to him. The world of possibilities is truly endless. Who IS Kaz Brekker without The Dregs, and Ketterdam, anyway?
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That lean toward her, rather than away from her stops her breath, makes her heart stutter in her chest at the unexpectedness of it. Fingers loosely touching is one thing, this is a different thing altogether.
All sense of language and speaking dissolves— is this real? It can’t be, can it? He wouldn’t— he couldn’t. She mutters something in Suli that he won’t understand and, slowly, every so carefully, she pulls away from him, just far enough she could look at him properly.
“Anyone,” she whispers softly. “You could just… be.” He would have the room here, the space for it, to be… Kaz. No rumors floating about, no reputation attached to him. The world of possibilities is truly endless. Who IS Kaz Brekker without The Dregs, and Ketterdam, anyway?