He returned Edith’s knock, and it came back again, so he played it once more. He rolled his cheek upon the cool door, feeling a surge of gratitude. Though this was just their way of saying nothing, of admitting the existence of things unsaid, it told him at least that their friendship could survive this test as it had survived so many others before it. And so he had no choice but to survive it, too.
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