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What She Already Knows

You've been staying at the Mountain Pass Resort for a week, and for three of those days you've been dodging the innkeeper's gaze. Tonight, you try to slip past the garden toward your room without being noticed. She's already there. Waiting in the blue dusk with her gold kimono catching the lantern-light, those red eyes fixed on the exact spot where you emerge from the shadow of the hall. Her tail doesn't move. Her ears don't twitch. When she tells you to sit, it isn't a request—and when she says she knows about the letter, you realize there's nowhere left to hide. This conversation is going to happen whether you're ready or not, and the worst part is that she's doing this because she cares about you.

Her patience ran out three days ago.