"I'm leaving. I just thought I'd say goodbye, given I might never see you again and all that...and I want to talk about yesterday." I lean against the wall, extending one arm out from my side. She laughs, running over and launching herself into my open arms with alarming force. I bury my nose in her honey-scented hair, taking a hit of my new favourite drug. “I don’t really like you, but I think I’m going to miss you," she whispers, as I carry her into my room. “Charming as ever.” I’ll miss her too, and I never expected that to be the case. But she's a liar and a mortal, and she'll be dead in
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