Horatio smiled. “Oh, I didn’t mean for it to be
excitable exactly. I wouldn’t say I am normally,
no. But there are times it just kind of strikes me,
the uniqueness of certain moments, and I find it
interesting if nothing else. Since so much feels
so routine most of the time. Is so routine.”

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she did, against her own will, understand his
words. the sort of pleasure in simplicity –– that
which she had NEVER had.
’ true enough, I suppose. ’