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[citizendetective]

Well, I haven't exactly asked her about it.

[Misty admits, twisting her fingers together.]

I'm just trying to make you feel better.

[skitter]

[Taylor shuts her eyes a moment, and then nods.]

Thanks for the try. I'm-

I just feel like we're all waiting for a bomb to go off.

[citizendetective]

[Misty pauses, and her own facade cracks a little more, her voice straining.]

Not a bomb. A bomb is... fightable. You can make a plan for how to deal with a bomb.

[skitter]

[A breath of a laugh.]

You can cut the toes off a bomb.

[Which is not a reference she expects Misty to get at all.]

I was present when Dinah predicted the end of the world. Two years, 19 out of 20 chance. This is kind of how I felt that night. Waiting. Like I'd just be waiting until the end.

[citizendetective]

And was that more or less than two years ago?

[skitter]

Two years… five months. Almost five months. But time here isn’t time there. I try not to think about it.