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He approached the booth without announcing himself, only slowing when Kaveh stirred at the sound of his footsteps.
There was a fleeting moment of fond recognition in Kaveh’s eyes as he turned his head, but it vanished as quickly as it came, iced over by something sharp and bitter. “Great,” he scoffed, voice hoarse. “Another ghost of my past has showed up to mock me.”
He knocked back the last mouthful of whatever was in his goblet and slammed it down onto the table with a loud clang and enough force to make the empty bottles rattle. Alhaitham’s eyes drifted over the small disaster spread across the table. Two bottles of wine lay tipped on their sides, their contents having soaked into the wood and leaving dark red stains along the edges. One cork had rolled near the booth’s edge and nearly fallen off. The surface was slick and sticky to the touch.
Alhaitham slid into the booth without a word.
“How have you been, Kaveh?”
A re-telling of Alhaitham and Kaveh's journey back to each other, only Kaveh is suffering from an eating disorder.