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The diner's mystery guest always wore the same outfit, always sat at the same seat, never ate anything, and remained hunched over his laptop for the entire time he was there. The staff speculate, but never dare to ask... and then one of them almost sees too much.
Or, one minimum wage worker's encounter with what used to be Brian Thomas.
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Even the coffee didn’t seem to smell as strong here. Kirsty breathed in through her nose, slowly and deeply, trying to tell herself it was her imagination, but no. There was something covering the smell here, something that smelled familiar but at the same time alien: like the cold of a winter morning but deeper, like the air in her freezer had suddenly become the air all around her. It was a wild kind of smell, she thought – and despite the fact she had never experienced such a thing, she was strongly reminded of a forest in the dead of winter, the branches bare, the creeks all iced over. She could almost see her breath; almost feel the chill seeping through her thin uniform and numbing her fingers.
Empty, she thought suddenly, though she didn’t know where the word had come from and now that she thought about it, she wasn’t even sure that it had been her voice that had said it.
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“Listen,” he said, leaning closer. Kirsty wanted to back away, but found her feet frozen to the spot. “Once you see, you can’t go back. Once you see, you can’t go back.”
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(i love brian so much and i love how he's characterized/described in this)