“That? That last bit? For me, too. The excitement, the so much of it. I wanted the badge, also, but I wanted it here. I wanted some of that so much. It scared me a little, at first, and even that was exciting.” As they got in the car, Peabody belted up. “Did it scare you at first?” “No, it was the answer.” Eve thought of herself sitting at the counter window, eating her first slice of New York pizza. Freedom, at last. “It was all the answers. I thought I could shake off everything that happened before, shut it away. That the city would just burn it off. I was wrong about that, because you
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