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The glint of flickering alley light, the burdening blare of an emergency vehicle weaving between traffic only rows of brick and mortar away; the drizzle, barely more than chilled mist, staining their clothes somewhat tentatively with darker hue.
All of these things, filled their senses, but not as greatly as their awarenesses for each other.
If it had been a conscious decision, on either of their parts, to hold a moment and catch stuttering breaths and clutch aching muscles, Jinx wasn’t sure whose actions were initially responsible; still, both of them read the writings in each other’s bodies well enough, and allowed the moment to roll silent.
For Raven, her in-action was fueled by slow creeping wonder; a sense of an idea that was taking great care into forming its shape.
As the cloaked Titan studied the girl opposed her, Jinx’s mind also began to stray.
Such moments were important, she knew; little parlays of faith that ultimately led to strengthenings of trust and nemistry. A Hero was only as good as their Villain, Jinx believed. A Villain, only grounded by their favored exception.
Had the hooded Titan chosen to speak, Jinx might have indulged to answer her.
Their breath now caught, broke the stillness between them, and the fight picked up between them once again; a fight that they would both choose to repeat several times over, for the next few months, the comfortable pattern of expectability straining between them from opposites stations across the battlefields.