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    “You just wanted to see him,” he growled, putting his hand back on the wheel and taking the next right toward their neighborhood.

    “That’s not true.” Rei’s voice was flat.

    Was it too on the nose to say she was glacial? That she was like an alpine lake, cold and still, onto which Enji skipped the stones of his emotions only to watch them sink wordlessly into the dark?

    She hadn’t always been like this. But, he supposed, he hadn’t always been the way he was either. This had felt hopeful, once. As if, maybe, they could beat the odds despite being in a marriage neither of them particularly wanted. He’d felt what he thought was love, or at least camaraderie, between them when Touya was born. And Fuyumi. But now, he wasn’t sure what that had been, if anything.

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