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“No” He reaches for the door “Unfortunately, we’re on a tiht”

She

The door opens and there she is Meg Today she’d dressed in a leopard juain, I don’t think there’s a single thing Meg could clothe herself with that wouldn’t have netism defies description

She steps into the room and carefully closes the door behind her I should say so and shake off this spell she weaves over e it Meg studiesat her lips “Power suits you I kneould”

That unsticks ave me to Ali”

She shrugs “Heas simple as friendship doesn’t hold a candle”

“Are we friends?” I hate that the question slips free, but it’s too late It floats in the space between us

She tilts her head to the side “We could be In time”

Tiive I’s turned out, how I handled the situation to land on my feet She didn’t know that would happen when she handed me over Hades didn’t knoould happen, either I doubt he cared one way or another what happened once his side of the deal with fulfilled “Does he know you’re here?”

“Probably” She shrugs a single shoulder “My tether is long enough when he’s in the enerous”

I still can’t really wrap my mind around their relationship, which is likely hypocritical After all, Jafar and I are hardly traditional in any sense of the word I look to hi to understand what he wants to accoe against what they did Against what could have happened to ot there

He seems content to let this play out His relaxed posture is a lie, though I know hih to read the tension in the line of his shoulders and the coldness in his dark eyes as he watches her If Megmove, he’ll haul her out of here I frown “If you didn’t want her here, why is she my surprise?”

Jafar cuts a look in ets a sharp look “You don’t norirl”