“I’m sorry we had to meet this way. Cute place, by the way. I’m Fauna.” She extended her hand as if I was meant to shake it, and my eyes bulged at the gesture. I struggled to keep from raking my hands through my hair, convinced the mad-scientist fluff wouldn’t make me look any saner. “Who the fuck are you people!” I could barely even look at the ethereal woman who stood in my room with supernatural grace and beauty. She was little more than curved lines and incomprehensible splashes of brass and diamond. None of it made sense. Part of me longed to slip into ignorance once more. It would be so
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It’s hard to build suspense when EVery Single Line of dialogue is followed by 1-3 paragraphs of exposition
