02-12-2015, 01:42 AM
The phone trembled in her hand. Hearing his voice left her fighting fear and uncertainty. "I ... I found a note, yesterday. Numbers. I can't figure out what they mean, J'kelo." She used his first name. The real one. Valentina knew he would remember her with that, right? He had to remember.
She leaned back against the wall. The roughness of the brick anchored her into the moment. People just starting to wander into the streets, picking up what the vendors had been cooking earlier, biting into it all... It made her mouth water, or would have if she hadn't been so terrified, clutching the phone til her knuckles turned white.
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