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[shenandoah]

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text message;
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[shenandoah]

[Whoa, there.]

How do you mean?

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[enchangement]

Accurately.

He isn't that, either.

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[shenandoah]

I fail to see how I can be faulted for attempting to ascertain that for myself. Still, I'll take your word for it.

[But he's not going to let the rest of it go.]

How can you be sure it's so accurate?

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[enchangement]

Not faulted.

It is only a familiar feeling. Wouldn't you rather want to know?

Some of us are skilled at survival by blending in. Some of us are skilled in survival by knowing.

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[shenandoah]

[This could be bad. But he's going to tread lightly for now.]

I take it you're the type who "knows".

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[enchangement]

Whether desired or not. Usually not.

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[shenandoah]

And what sort of things do you "know"?

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[enchangement]

Memories. Personal truths. Desires. Secrets. Lies. Without context or explanation. Pieces of puzzles set alight and left to ashes.

What people think of me before. What they think of me after I tell them this.

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[shenandoah]

Doesn't sound like a terribly pleasant skill to have.

[And what it could mean for him is concerning.]

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[enchangement]

It isn't. [ She could tell him more. Tell him why. But she doubts he'd want to know right now. ]

But I am, like you, interested in survival. And I am, like you, good at keeping secrets.

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[shenandoah]

In that case, it would be sincerely appreciated if this secret could be one you'll continue to keep.

[Not that he'd going to assume it will come at no cost to him.]

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[enchangement]

[ But she doesn't want anything. Except his friendship which has to be earned anyway. ]

I know. Have been will continue.

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[shenandoah]

Thank you, Miss River.

[Trust, like friendship, has to be earned as well, and Cyrus isn't so sure that he's ready to give it just yet. But for now, he has little choice.]