[She watches him -- wary, and a little scared. Not that she'd ever admit to the latter, but it's there. As much as the fire is. The air temperature round her has climbed.]
[And she can't help it. Her lip curls at him, and her tone is sharp-edged, almost bitter.]
If I did, she died in a fire. In nineteenth-century Chicago.
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[And she can't help it. Her lip curls at him, and her tone is sharp-edged, almost bitter.]
If I did, she died in a fire. In nineteenth-century Chicago.