first minute.

[profession]

MAKE IT QUICK.

prompts, text, action.
anything goes.

tick tock tick.

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[doublecover]

[Book still in hand, Gaby peers over her glasses and at the man in front of her. She keeps her mouth relaxed, unsmiling and unamiable. Her expression is harsh but her eyes are sympathetic. Sorry, Illya: a cover is a cover and you're stuck with a hardass today.]

Do I look like the type to welcome strangers to her table?

[Though nevertheless she closes her book and slides it over to one side. Her hand moves to her glass so that she can lazily trace the rim of it with her fingertips, but immediately she hesitates and instead grips it with a deliberately cautious awkwardness. She feels oddly comfortable with him considering everything that has happened between the two of them and what she has done. His presence makes the muscles in her shoulders soften and her lungs feel slightly larger than before.

A stranger would not feel quite so at ease and so, for now, she is relegated to stilted, sheepish smalltalk. She stiffens her shoulders and looks at her drink.]

What do you do?