[Settle back at his place? That's exactly the sort of phrase that ought to set off warning bells, and yet...it doesn't? That, in itself, is strange enough to give her pause.
Because she doesn't know him. Nothing about those sharp features or low, measured words strikes her as familiar. Yet he's standing closer than she'd normally allow a stranger, and she feels no inherent wariness at finding herself alone in a void, at the base of an enormous monolith, with an unknown man.
Whose name she's positive she doesn't know.]
Yes yes, of course, only would you humor me with one little question? [Which is itself a trick question, because she doesn't pause enough to let him reply] Do we know one another?
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Because she doesn't know him. Nothing about those sharp features or low, measured words strikes her as familiar. Yet he's standing closer than she'd normally allow a stranger, and she feels no inherent wariness at finding herself alone in a void, at the base of an enormous monolith, with an unknown man.
Whose name she's positive she doesn't know.]
Yes yes, of course, only would you humor me with one little question? [Which is itself a trick question, because she doesn't pause enough to let him reply] Do we know one another?