𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍 𝑶𝒇 𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 ~ 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝑿 𝑶𝒄

𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑴𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒅

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑶𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒐

𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓, "𝑯𝒊." 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓, "𝑯𝒊." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚, 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚, 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑, "𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, "𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖?" 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅, "𝑵𝒐."

𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅, "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕?" 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅, "𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒉 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕, 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆 "𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇." 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕, "𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚, "𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎, "𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓, "𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒖𝒑, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒂𝒘𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, "𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒉?" 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒌𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚.