As the Dust Clears
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His expression is tight, twisted in quiet agony as he stares at the building across the street. It’s in tatters from the fight: windows are shattered with bits of brick and wood littering the road. The two upper floors have collapsed, snapping the middle structure and causing it to cave inward.
At first glance, she thinks little of it. Destruction is an unfortunate part of the job they can’t avoid, but something she has always been able to fix at the flick of a wrist. For a moment, she thinks perhaps he’s forgotten this, but a sense of dread settles in her stomach as she looks back to the rubble.
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- Part 1 of As the Dust Clears
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He stops the thought before it can finish. “No,” he says aloud, his voice wavering in the attempt to sound firm and feels his throat tighten. This is his fault. All his fault. He didn’t help Marinette escape; didn’t help her to somewhere safe. He’d just told her to hide inside a building near the akuma’s destruction zone.
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- Part 2 of As the Dust Clears