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99 Feel

"How do you feel?"

"Huh?"

"The therapy—how are you feeling?"

"Fine," Danny answered after a moment. "Not all that different."

Vlad sighed softly, as if disappointed. "I see. You will be getting bi-weekly examinations, though, to make sure nothing is going horribly wrong—if you feel ill or strange at all, tell me immediately. I don't need some unforeseen effect downing you."

For a reason Danny couldn't entirely pinpoint, the knowledge that Vlad actually cared about what happened to her sent a lazy spiral of warmth through her.

"Will do," she told her boss almost happily before going back to work, completely missing the mystified look on Vlad's face.