— And if that doesn't explain why a shared office won't do, he's willing to press the point. Strand balances the tray, picks a tumbled grain of rice from his sleeve. Eyes her plain.
(When she'd startled, he'd spied it as if in slow-motion. He moves slowly these days to match.)
"There's a storeroom with thick walls," Out of earshot of the dozen other busybodies in Riftwatch's leadership. "Or we can discuss it here and now."
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— And if that doesn't explain why a shared office won't do, he's willing to press the point. Strand balances the tray, picks a tumbled grain of rice from his sleeve. Eyes her plain.
(When she'd startled, he'd spied it as if in slow-motion. He moves slowly these days to match.)
"There's a storeroom with thick walls," Out of earshot of the dozen other busybodies in Riftwatch's leadership. "Or we can discuss it here and now."