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Chapter 18: Patch Job
She reached him before he had fully completed the simple act of standing up straight, which suggested either urgency or impatience, and her hands were already on his face before he had even finished the equally simple act of turning toward her.
She tilted his head, not roughly but without hesitation, checking his jaw, his collar, the back of his neck where the barrel had been, proceeding through the inspection with a precision that implied a preexisting checklist rather than improvisation.
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