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The silence in this room is a character you didn't cast, but it’s the one stealing every single scene we have together.
I watched the way you looked at the carbon steel, not with fear, but with a terrifyingly precise sort of hunger.
You have flour on your cheek, a smudge that looks like a thumbprint, and I’m wondering if you’d jump if I wiped it off.
The steam was so thick I couldn’t see my own knees, but I could hear her breathing, rhythmic and heavy, just three feet away.
Your hands were behind your back, your wrists crossed, and for a second, the only sound was the tide hitting the rocks.
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The weight of the silence in the shop was like a reduction sauce—thick, concentrated, and smelling faintly of things that had simmered too long.