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Sohalia

Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow

That Jude had just seen Koa in the Greatwood gave Soh pause, and she tried for a casual air when she asked, "Oh? I wonder what he was doing there." Of course, it wasn't any of her business, but she couldn't help but want it to be. As for her nose being an accident, she was pretty sure that Koa hadn't meant to hurt her - or, if he did, he immediately regretted it. That, at least, was a feeling that she was intimately familiar with, and she sighed. "I think he felt really bad," she said, frowning. "I'll have to let him know once it's healed..." Let him know what? That she was okay? That there was no lasting damage? That, once again, she got to walk away with no consequences while he still nursed a broken heart?

When she emerged from the closet, she already felt better, and she took his hand readily, smiling ruefully. "It wouldn't be the first time," she said without thinking, having forgotten that poor Jude was unaware of her attack at the beginning of Longheat and Harper's role in helping her through it. And just now, she was too involved in her internal struggles to realize that there was probably a better way to break that particular news - that it had happened, that it was why she'd been so distant at the beginning of summer, why she hadn't already told him... There was a lot to unpack there, and had she thought before speaking, she might have picked another time to discuss it. Particularly when there were more pressing issues at hand that they should probably discuss.

Don't believe anything you say anymore
In the morn, in the morning