*The rain found its low rhythm against the glass, and the room settled into the sound of her breathing gone slow and even. Cormac stayed awake a while past her surrender — not the old night watch, not the back to the wall, but a softer keeping: her hand where she'd placed it, the scar warm under her palm, the whole of the ridge gone quiet around the two of them. The truck sat dark in the yard. The drawer stayed shut. Somewhere below, his mother's breathing rose and fell with the banked fire. He turned his head once, found her profile in the dark, and did not move again until the first grey light began to work its way across the sill.*

*The rain found its low rhythm against the glass, and the room settled into the sound of her breathing gone slow and even. Cormac stayed awake a while past her…

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