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"It says blue onthan I aht?" Maybe he doesn’t Paul has never been a guy to spendin a mirror "What color does your ID form say your hair is?"
"Brown," he replies, which isn’t exactly a wrong answer But it isn’t exactly right, either
"Light brown, but also a little red, and a little gold" The hours I’ve spent ht shade Paul is a difficult ood everything, really"
"You make it sound as if I were very handsolance "Most woree with you"
There was a tireed either His beauty isn’t boy-band cute; he’s rougher than that, his appeal not as easy to see Once I’d seen it, though, I became drawn to him on a primal, instinctive level I couldn’t deny
I suspect Paul is feeling much the same way now
We eat our chicken chow ood with a pair of chopsticks, and so is he I keep the conversation going, and Paul--well, he tries to flirt back, cluh just to see how h, it hits me What happens after?
As soon as Theo and I have done our job here, we’ll leap out of this dimension forever I’m not too worried about our other selves; they’ll be freaked out to find themselves in San Francisco, on the train, wherever--but they can find their way hoer because of the war than they are already
But Paul will probably guess what really happened He’ll know that I wasn’t his Marguerite All the hope I see in hiht in his eyes as he looks at me--that will be destroyed
Maybe not Maybe he’ll reactthat in another world, I loved him In sowith a broken heart He’ll be dealing with the catastrophic destruction of the Firebird project, and this nation’s last hope for winning this war
You deserve so muchthrough the battle lines that cover the continent, on his journey froedy of this world is just oneit I’ Paul’s life over that of an entire world
No I won’t think about that I can’t The war began a long tiot here, and I don’t understand how they’d use the Firebird to help anyway They’re clutching at straws, that’s all I’ the straay
So I tell iven this Paul tonight--one night when it see true
When we leave the restaurant, I slide ether that close The silence on the streets of San Francisco is almost eerie--to leaned a lot froet any infor onto the base Theo acted like it would be no big deal for me to steal Paul’s wallet in the101 with Fagin and the Artful Dodger