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[noteful]

Meg isn't paying all that much attention to the goings on around her this evening. She meant to be, but she's nearly at the end of Cat of Many Tails, and it's very easy to get caught up in the solution to a murder mystery.

Occasionally, she reaches for one of the grapes in the bowl on her table, but for the most part, her attention is wholly on the book in front of her.

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[theunsmiling]

"Fear not," Michael says, the crooked smile smoothing away into an expression that is a great deal more serious.

"Shall I keep you company until you've had more time to settle?"

[noteful]

"I'll try not to."

Meg turns her book over in her hands.

"I . . . it's not that I don't appreciate the offer, but honestly, all I want to do right now is go home."

[theunsmiling]

"Then I think you're settled enough."

Michael's gesture toward the door is quick and sure, on the off chance that Meg worries about offending.

"I'll see you home safe."

Not that it will take much, right now.

[noteful]

Meg stands again.

"Thank you."

For any number of things.

[theunsmiling]

"Go home, Meg Ford," Michael says, instead of saying 'you're welcome' again.

"And be well."

And once Meg is safely returned to her own world, Michael vanishes.

She has other places to be.