[Abigail went off Touko's list as soon as Ben did, after she let him touch her and knew who she thought he was wasn't. She doesn't need to lurk around corners for him any longer, and Abigail only mattered to her insofar as she was his innmate.
That doesn't mean she isn't watching her now, though, catching her the third time that day, on the stairs this time as she tries to watch her steps below her and her book under her nose as well as the people around her. She's taken off the camouflage: Touko can see it in how her body doesn't deliberate any longer, simply does, and in a world where she's been arguing with someone almost every day about who she is and isn't, that sudden difference in the girl she remembers and the one she sees today is a magnet.
If it's the same girl. Ben has a man who shares his face, who couldn't be more different, so she has to rule that out first, before she tries to worm out of her what changed. Her head snaps up and she tries a cool, nonchalant stare (unsuccessful, almost immediately looking away).]
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That doesn't mean she isn't watching her now, though, catching her the third time that day, on the stairs this time as she tries to watch her steps below her and her book under her nose as well as the people around her. She's taken off the camouflage: Touko can see it in how her body doesn't deliberate any longer, simply does, and in a world where she's been arguing with someone almost every day about who she is and isn't, that sudden difference in the girl she remembers and the one she sees today is a magnet.
If it's the same girl. Ben has a man who shares his face, who couldn't be more different, so she has to rule that out first, before she tries to worm out of her what changed. Her head snaps up and she tries a cool, nonchalant stare (unsuccessful, almost immediately looking away).]
I- I wanted to ask you something.