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“You’re crying” I said. “Do you want me to leave?”
She shook her head, and then, as though she could no longer contain the words that seemed to force themselves out, she whispered, “oh wont you go too Severian? I didn’t mean it. Wont you come? Wont you come with me?”
“I can’t.”