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An image that wouldn't let go of me. This much isn't lying, after all.
Yes, I'm still working on Phantoms and Shadows. No it's not coming along very fast, though there is an outtake based on a certain line from Chapter 4, which is posted on my website.

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"I just...need to know the truth. Please. Just once, and I won't bother you again."

"Sorry, nee-chan. But I'm not Shinichi." He'd smiled at her, eyes bright with heart-twinging truth.

"I can't be."

The smile was genuine, yet there was something silently, achingly knowing in its depths.

But she'd gotten only a glimpse when he'd closed his eyes, still smiling, hugged her briefly, and hopped down from the window seat. He'd been facing away, so she couldn't see whether she heard a real whisper or just a ghost of her own wishful thinking as he walked from the room.

"Yet."


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