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    The blond stranger frowns as he looks at her. “Where’s Ed?” he asks.

    But before Archie even gets to say a word, Jim is breaking away from their hug with Oluwande, stepping in front of her with a knife in hand and a scowl on their lips.

    And even though Archie’s been fighting longer than most of these people have been sailing, there’s something that warms in her chest at the notion.

    Some others’ eyes go wide at the blade. At the twist of Jim’s mouth. At the way that Jim bares their teeth as they say, “Any of you pendejos want to get to her, you go through me, got it?"

    Meanwhile, Oluwande smiles at Archie, and gods, that brightness directed at her is nearly blinding.

    “You must be someone really important to Jim,” he says, and offers out a hand, “Call me Olu. Thanks for keeping them alive for so long.”

    Jim rolls their eyes as they peel away from the bearded man. “It was a team effort,” they say, but there is something so fond in their voice that is likely far more for Olu than for Archie.

    She knows that anyone else would be jealous of him and his soft smile and the warmth, but the snake inside of her craves warmth. Craves the sun.

    And Olu smiles as bright as the sun.

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