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    Summary

    The fortune teller looks at the two of them for longer than she looked at anyone else. Then she smiles — small, private, the smile of someone encountering something they expected — and says: fated lovers.

    Kaoru has seventeen objections, all of them accurate. Kojiro has none, which is its own kind of problem.

    They have been friends for twenty-three years. They are in complete agreement that the fortune teller was performing cold reading for a festival crowd. They are absolutely not going to think about the way the stars arranged themselves, the three cards on dark cloth, or the fact that they have been, apparently, circling each other for longer than either of them has words for.

    The thread, it turns out, does not ask permission.

    Language:
    English
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    11,950
    Chapters:
    4/30
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