[ This time, when she repeats it, there are tears in her eyes that won't quite come. She closes her hand around air now that the tool is no longer there, as though she can somehow hold tight to the power he had demonstrated, the opportunity he offered her, through that intangible moment.
She shakes her head, the aching in her chest growing, a fear that shakes her. She doesn't know what to do with it, with any of this. ]
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[ This time, when she repeats it, there are tears in her eyes that won't quite come. She closes her hand around air now that the tool is no longer there, as though she can somehow hold tight to the power he had demonstrated, the opportunity he offered her, through that intangible moment.
She shakes her head, the aching in her chest growing, a fear that shakes her. She doesn't know what to do with it, with any of this. ]