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[b]Luke Schwarz

"Yeah. You can trust me."[/b]

Whether or not I was running headfirst into a fool's errand with those words didn't matter. Secrecy about the past wasn't new to me, and if Skye could open up to a basically complete stranger like myself...

Didn't that suggest that she'd soon be able to tell people on her own? I wouldn't even need to blab. She would really save herself, like Tanner always said of people.

All I needed to do was be present for it.

[b]"Nothing said here will frivolously leave my lips, don't worry. I'm not much for the rumor mill."[/b]

All that aside, it didn't hurt to clarify myself further. Call it indulgent, but I never got to say a cool line for real these days, you know? As the everyman, I was stuck always being disoriented and confused...

But, back on the point:

This wasn't something to back out of. Even if I couldn't help, I had promised I would listen. 

That could be enough. It could not. 

Whether it was or it wasn't, it was something I wanted-- No, needed to do. I had a sinking feeling, brought on by knowing how these scenes always went in stories, that I had just gotten in way over my head...

But what mattered was that, at least, I could keep my word on it.