[ willfully misinterpreting that as a jab at her natural sweat-soaked, liquor-speckled aroma, Jess's eyebrows peak briefly. ] Subtle.
[ normally, she might like to chance it in there with him but she doesn't feel any cleaner than she probably smells. Jess leans off the wall, sitting up semi-straight and then pushing herself to her feet with the table's assist. encroaching is the paranoid warning that if she leaves the room, she'll return to find him dead and strung up bloody to teach her a lesson. Jess convinces herself not to listen to that voice, using the logic that she doesn't have that fear when he walks out (and then under that -- "but maybe you should"). en route to the bathroom, she glances towards the window and dredges slight reassurance from the white-out on the other side.
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[ normally, she might like to chance it in there with him but she doesn't feel any cleaner than she probably smells. Jess leans off the wall, sitting up semi-straight and then pushing herself to her feet with the table's assist. encroaching is the paranoid warning that if she leaves the room, she'll return to find him dead and strung up bloody to teach her a lesson. Jess convinces herself not to listen to that voice, using the logic that she doesn't have that fear when he walks out (and then under that -- "but maybe you should"). en route to the bathroom, she glances towards the window and dredges slight reassurance from the white-out on the other side.
who ever got murdered in a blizzard? ]