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“Bourne pushed his hood back, smiling. “I’m practicing my movements across distances. It’s easier to be private now that I know where you sleep.” She rolled over, struggling with clinging bedclothes. “Don’t get up.”

Their eyes met across the brazier. She smiled then, fully awake. His smile deepened. “There is still some distance,” she observed.
“Only a step,” he said, and crossed it.”