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Chapter 665
She looked at him.She looked at him with the direct and slightly flat quality of someone who is going to be honest rather than reassuring, who is not going to give the comfortable and managed version of how they are doing but the actual version."Yes," she said with the measured and slightly tired quality of someone who is genuinely okay in the specific sense of being functional and present and not broken, but who wants the okay to be understood in its full and particular quality rather than as something more than it is. "I am okay. Very okay."She paused.With the specific and slightly complicated quality of someone who is about to add something to the okay that modifies it, that gives it a more complete and honest shape."Though I will say," she continued with the quiet and slightly matter-of-fact quality of someone who is stating something they have no particular feeling of shame or complicated emotion about, who is reporting a fact about their own interior state with the flat and
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She loved this man.Not in the specific and simple sense of a feeling that has a clear and uncomplicated form. In the more complicated and slightly consuming sense of a feeling that has been built from many things over a period of time that is not short, from the specific and particular quality of his attention and his belief in her and the specific way he had listened to the things she wanted and had responded to them not with the dismissal or the redirection or the management that she had encountered from almost every other person in her life when she expressed the full and genuine scope of her ambitions, but with the flat and immediate and entirely genuine quality of someone who heard what she said and took it seriously and said yes, this is possible, let us talk about how.That was not a small thing.In a life that had been full of people who managed her and directed her and had their own ideas about what she was supposed to want and what was appropriate for someone in her positio
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Princess Naomi bowed her head.The bowing had the specific and slightly unusual quality of something that is being done against the ordinary grain of things, that is being performed with a full and deliberate awareness of its own unusualness, the particular and slightly significant quality of a gesture that means more because the person making it knows it is not required of them and is making it anyway, is choosing the specific and voluntary quality of respect over the automatic and obligatory quality of protocol."I know I am not supposed to bow," she said with the quiet and measured quality of someone who is acknowledging the specific and slightly paradoxical quality of what they are doing, who is not going to pretend the bowing is a natural or expected thing but is going to own it in the specific and deliberate way of someone who has decided to do something and is doing it with their eyes fully open. "But at this point, in this specific and particular moment, after everything that
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"Like I said before," she continued with the measured and deliberate quality of someone who is returning to something they stated earlier and is confirming it now with the additional weight of everything that has happened since, "you are going to be of great help in all of this. I am very, very sure that what we are building here, what we are working toward together, is something that is going to need your specific and particular qualities at every stage of the getting there."She finished with the composed and entirely certain quality of someone who is looking forward and seeing clearly and is not afraid of what they see.The miraculous doctor nodded."You have absolutely nothing to worry about," he said with the measured and reassuring quality of someone who wants the person they are speaking to to carry the specific and comfortable weight of genuine confidence rather than the specific and consuming weight of anxiety. "Nothing at all."He held her for a moment with the composed and
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She finished with the composed and entirely certain quality of someone who has been completely honest and is waiting for the same honesty in return.The miraculous doctor took a breath.It was a deep breath. The specific and deliberate quality of someone who is taking in oxygen for a reason that is more than physical, who is using the breath as a moment of full and complete interior assessment, of arriving at the final position on something that has been worked toward through the specific and consuming quality of this entire extraordinary evening.He thought very quickly.With the rapid and comprehensive quality of a mind that is very good at this, that has practiced this specific kind of rapid and comprehensive thinking over a long period of time and has developed the particular and efficient quality of someone who can run through the full and complete implications of a situation in the time it takes most people to register that a situation has implications.He needed to be fast.Thi
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She paused.With the weighted and deliberate quality of someone who is about to say the part that costs the most to say, the part that has the specific and slightly sharp quality of something that draws blood in the saying of it even when the decision has been fully made."And I have understood," she said with the measured and deliberate quality of someone who is being completely honest with the person they are speaking to and with themselves simultaneously, "that if I really want to do something like this, it means I will need to deal with my father."She held the miraculous doctor's gaze without flinching."Letting him go," she said with the flat and quiet quality of someone who has found a way to say something enormous in a small number of words without diminishing the enormity of it, "or killing him."The words sat in the space between them with the specific and slightly dense quality of something that has weight and is not pretending not to have weight, that is what it is without
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