Swirling her foot in the open air, she wondered what it would feel like to fall, when a sharp voice pulled her back into her body. “Get down. Now.” Rua glanced over her shoulder to find Renwick taking up the doorframe, fists clenched at his sides. He looked at her with a mixture of anger and terror that she would choose to dangle herself over the balcony. “I’m fine here,” Rua said. “I won’t fall.” “Your arms are trembling,” Renwick noted, glancing down at her goose-pimpled flesh. He unbuttoned his jacket even as he spoke. “Are you coming down or am I joining you on the ledge?” Cheeks dimpling,
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