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She goes through a lullaby and then turns out to have a harmony part that corresponds to one of his songs.

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Oooooh. He'll sing along.

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...she has a bunch of those actually.

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Awwww he's flattered. And they can do all of them.

 

And halfway through he'll take a bump by the truck as an excuse to slide closer.

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She manages not to flinch away, but she does tense up.

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Which he clearly takes as a signal to back off, and doesn't try it again. 

 

Telkam drops them off at a train station.

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"How do I find your place -"

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"That one." He points at an apartment complex across the way. "303, it's on the key."

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"Thank you - so much -"

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"It'd be kind of dumb to say 'I get it' because, not really, but -"

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She kisses her baby. "If there's ever anything I could do -"

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"Just settle in and be whatever you want and I'll feel good about it."

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She nods. "Thanks."

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"Uh huh."

 

 

He drives off.

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She looks vaguely intimidated by the apartment building but heads in.

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It's swanky. Clearly aimed mostly at students, several of whom are clustered in the common areas muttering over whiteboards or reading or marking papers. They glance at her but not with particular interest.

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Wow.

She goes up to 303.

 


She unpacks, into a conservative little corner of the apartment. She feeds Katin again. She investigates the state of her formula and food supply.

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He is maybe not fantastic at keeping his apartment stocked. There's an unopened shipping box with forty packets of instant oatmeal atop it in the corner of the pantry. There are cans of pineapple. There's expired milk in the fridge. 

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She dumps the milk. She attempts to get on the internet and see if there's any food out of Voa available on clearance.

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Then she will tie Katin to her back and go out and see if they'll take tap for it.

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Nope but once the partial language barrier is managed with the help of a storekeeper's pocket everything they can point her at a bank that will.

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She changes the currency. She goes back and stocks up on couscous and nuts and dried fruit and do they happen to have formula?

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They do have formula but while she's picking some out a middle-aged woman comes up to her and says that she insists on buying the baby clean formula - "you mustn't risk her health, the poor thing -"

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"- it's not dangerous and she's too little to know it's disgusting - I really don't have the money -"

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