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He was standing above her She shrugged, still giving her eyes to her horrible knitting

"You shouldn’t be in here"

"It’s washed down, Galen"

"IWhat was she doing here? Just a day ago, she’d felt so suffocated by the place that she thought she’d lose her mind What made her think she could ever learn to knit?

"It’s fine, Gale I’uilt that made her torment hier-anger at his weakness, anger that he loved her like he did when she’d clearly done nothing to deserve it, anger that she would have to be the one to look him in the eye after the baby was born-a baby that would, as long as life was being so ironic, look just like Theo Jaxon-and explain the truth to hi in theI just came to tell you"

She put her needles down to look at hi his face a scrunched, boyish appearance "What do you ’?"

"Jione, we don’t knohat’s going on down there"

"Flyers, Galen Why is he sending you?"

"You think I can’t handle it?"

"I didn’t say that, Gale" She heard herself sigh "I’ why you, is all You’ve never been down there before"

"Soo Maybe he thinks I’reeable "Be careful, okay? All eyes"

"You say that like you actually mean it"

Mausami didn’t kno to answer that She felt suddenly tired

"Of course I mean it, Gale"

"Because if you don’t, you should probably just say so"

Tell hiht Why didn’t she just tell hiain "I’ll be here when you get back Go to the station"

"You really think I’ with his hands at his sides, glaring at her One hand, his right, closest to his blade, gave a s twitch

"I didn’tsay that"

"Well, I’m not"

A silent moment passed His hand had moved to his belt, perched beside the handle of his knife

"Galen?" she asked gently "What are you doing?"

The question appeared to jar hi at aze to look A little hmm sound rose in the back of his throat "I don’t know," he said, frowning "I guess you’ve gotfor you on the catwalk? Aren’t you supposed to be there?"

There was, she thought, soely inward about his expression, as if he wasn’t quite seeing her "I guess I better go," he said

But still he made no effort to leave, nor to move his hand away

"So I’ll see you in a few days," Mausa to the station, Galen Isn’t that what you said?"

A gli down there tomorrow"

"So take care of yourself, okay? I mean it All eyes"