Maybe it was that, maybe it was the expression that I knew matched my own, but when I caught his eye, I laughed. It started as a chuckle, but like the rain, it soon became a torrent. And he laughed too. I gave my body to it—a release after almost a month of uncertainty. He doubled over, as though the rain had washed away Business Bastian and the tense man I’d ridden out of the gate with.
