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At which point I realize that the worst is yet ahead. Yes, good.” I don’t know if his advice works, or if my blood pressure naturally spikes when I’m told what to do, but I make it to the top without crumpling like a sack of potatoes. It’ll be worse.” How does he even know that. I’m a few inches taller, and he looks even more handsome from this angle. I can maintain normal blood pressure without passing out. I clutch the sidebars and take a deep breath. I’m halfway to the top, and my head starts spinning. Because you know how I mentioned that my body likes to faint? Well. I climb up, which proves to be a nice distraction. Is he teasing me again? For the second time? In a day?
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I turn to hiss at him, but stop when I see his expression. He must notice how annoying I find being coached, because he says, “At least you know about the angular gyrus.” I tell myself that I have other talents as he has to patiently guide me through the process of releasing the catches and setting the safety mechanism. It feels a little less-than-cool when I find that it’s so heavy, I can barely hold it upright. He lifts the ladder like it’s a feather and slides it through the gate. “I’ll have lost a precious heirloom passed down my family for generations.” “I’ll drive by tomorrow morning and pick it up.” “What if someone steals it?” Not that he usually doesn’t, but it’s having a new.effect on me. This is what we’re going to do: I’ll slide in the ladder through the gates, and you’ll use it to get on top of the wall. His expression is neutral when he asks, “You okay?”ĭoes thoroughly mortified count as okay? Let’s say: “Yeah.” To his credit, if he’s smirking he’s doing it on the inside. He steps out of an oil-guzzling truck that I sadly have no right to complain about anymore, surveys the wall, and comes to stand on the other side of the gate. I also want to kill him for witnessing the extent of the humiliation of Bee Königswasser, human disaster.
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The second Levi appears, I want to kiss him for rescuing me from the mosquitos, and the ghosts, and the ghosts of the mosquitos.
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