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Not so relieved to see her back to h as she makes her way across the tracks away from the train, into the darkness away from the station

I call out to her, leap down and slam the train door shut behind me

I can see her head shaking, and then turn when I call out her naain

“Maybe I just wanna go for a walk by myself,” she shouts, her voice thick with eht air

I look up and then down the silvery, snaking network of steel tracks she’s walking between

All clear for now, but I won’t have her out here at night like this It’s stupidly dangerous at any tiht

I open s are alreadydouble time much faster than my mouth can run

She hearsto speak, to tell me to leave her alone most likely

Her cheeks are shining with tears in the ht

Tears I can’t change or the past that caused theain once she’s with ood

Forever

“Just… Let’s get off these da aher up in my arms

It’s just safer and quicker this way

Instead of heading back to the train, I take us beyond the steel tracks that stretch out to the horizon in each direction and e of woodland not too far ahead

There’s the sound of the train’s horn blasting through the night My own starting to rise up with the warm softness of her body pressed into mine

The fa into her with each step as her tears and annoyance gives way to needing to be close to me

I cradle her as I walk, gravel crunching under my feet Glad when I feel her hands on ainst me as she sniffs quietly

Better now

“What if webetter of it

I shrug, knowing she can feel that too

“Dunno,” I re like the caveman in me has finally been released

I’ her That is prehistoric

But picking her up and just carrying her away It feels like thein the world

Alhs

The thighs I squeeze as I walk, looking down at her finally clear of the tracks