Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
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“If there was any justice in the world, I'd never have met you, much less have even a scrap of your regard. And for a while... I thought maybe I'd cheated fate to have you near me. That I was bending the rules—forcing some impossible streak of luck—and any moment, you'd find out who I really was, and then you'd be gone. (...) But what a stupid thing to think. Unfair to you. Did I think so little of you? Did I think you couldn't see who I was, really? Was I foolish enough to believe I could make you see something other than what was there?”
“Well, shit. Milky bean water. I'll be damned.”
“People just sat around drinking it from these little ceramic cups, and I had to try it, and... it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it's something else.”
“His eyes widened. “Well, shit. Milky bean water. I’ll be damned.” He took another, longer sip and burned his tongue.”
“You've found a very peaceful place here. A special place. You've planted something, and now its blossoming. Very nice. A good spot to rest. My thanks to you for letting an old-timer shade under the branches of what you've grown.”
“You just said you saw me through the window. If fate intervenes, it'll be to turn you around and send you right back out.”
“The deeper she ventured, the more stone prevailed, as though the city had calcified as it aged.”
“She looked around. Her place. Not a temporary stop or a spot to sling her bedroll for one night. Hers.”
“It suddenly seemed that any faux pas or stumble here might follow and shame her forever, before she'd even properly settled down, irrational though the thought was.”
“If Thimble could communicate without speaking, that certainly appeared to be his preference.”
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