His hands stilled on her hips. Not because of the first thing she said, (that was — fair enough, everyone had established that they did not agree with him here, but Noble was not going to stop,) but because of the second. "Yeah," Noble said, "That's what he said, too." Or — had not said. It had been implied — I can't do this without you. Neither of them could, except — Noble did not understand why everyone was so convinced he was going to die when he hadn't yet.

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