[ if leaving is an option, it's one she takes without much hesitation. there's an urgency to it — easy to assume, given the literal everything about her, that it's from fear — though she doesn't bother to elaborate. just books it outside as fast as her long legs will carry her, past the crowd and the air thick with the scent of blood and sweat and drink and into the outer alleyway, where brick untouched by the day's sun is cool against her skin as she leans up against it.
there's a measured purpose to caroline's breathing now, in and held and then released between pursed lips, reminiscent of a woman in a lamaze class cramming the material a week before her due date. ]
This was a bad idea.
[ to him, not to him; it's said out loud out of habit more so than striking conversation. ]
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[ if leaving is an option, it's one she takes without much hesitation. there's an urgency to it — easy to assume, given the literal everything about her, that it's from fear — though she doesn't bother to elaborate. just books it outside as fast as her long legs will carry her, past the crowd and the air thick with the scent of blood and sweat and drink and into the outer alleyway, where brick untouched by the day's sun is cool against her skin as she leans up against it.
there's a measured purpose to caroline's breathing now, in and held and then released between pursed lips, reminiscent of a woman in a lamaze class cramming the material a week before her due date. ]
This was a bad idea.
[ to him, not to him; it's said out loud out of habit more so than striking conversation. ]