“Sydney, look at me.” His warm touch erased the tears from my face until they finally slowed, and I could focus on him. “Do you know what the observer effect is?” I blinked and tried to think, but my brain was too muddy to think about anything, let alone some obscure science fact. My head shook in his hands, not trusting myself to speak. “The observer effect is the phenomenon where an object changes—is altered simply because something or someone is watching it,” he murmured rapidly. “From the moment you got here… the moment you first looked at me, Sydney, you changed me simply because you saw
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