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【 reseda, 2017 】
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━━ Eyes are the window to the soul.
You can tell a lot about somebody's motives by paying attention to their eyes, as long as you know what to look for. If there was excessive blinking, unusual dilation of the pupils, a slight twitch in the eyeball itself, something was afoot. Someone was caught in the middle of a lie, or busy in an attempt to buy time for themselves.
Stevie was once considered a master at knowing what to look for. ( She's sure if she tried, she would still be perfectly capable of falling back into the art of analyzing someone's eyes. )
However, she was not the only one who was doing any watching.
Stevie has also been on the receiving end of plenty of stares. She has had lusty eyes trail after her figure. Looks of loathing have followed her with fantasies of her demise. Narrowed eyes would stare her down, forcing shivers to run down her spine.
So what made these yellow eyes so much harder to face?
She couldn't figure out what it was until she stood outside the Cobra Kai store front, watching the snake eyes follow her. ( It was her first time as a prospective student, rather than someone with an itch to make a mockery of it. )
Yellow eyes stripped her bare. They revealed slivers of the broken soul she spent years burying deep inside until there was nothing left to show. She felt the frigid air feed on the frayed ends of her nervous system: the exposure burning her alive. Honeyed words, dripped in poison, called every morsel of fear to bubble behind the surface as she stared at the cobra with contempt.
This is a terrible idea, Stevie.
The words echoed in her head like a mantra.
This is a terrible idea.
It kept repeating, as if she didn't already know what a god-awful idea this was when she knocked on Johnny's door.
The short phrase could not tell her anymore than her own internal monologue already had. Her ability to pick apart a bad plan is a part of the reason she was such a strong leader. The other part was that she could navigate those bad plans that came to life in the midst of it. She could fight her way through such nightmarish things and survive.
