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Come on…Thirty-six dollars wasn’t a lot for a room.Not for a nightly price, at least.Even if it only got you a mirror with a crack edging one corner and a bathroom light that buzzed loud enough to be just on the edge of annoying.Orin stood in front of that mirror, eyes and chest open and nothing but a pair of briefs on his body. Both palms gripped the edge of the sink tight as he stared at his own face, the same way he had for the last five minutes.Come on.He tried to blink.He’d been trying to blink for a full five minutes now, every single spent getting back to his room had been on that task alone and he’d been failing hard. Come…His eyes kept doing it, almost refusing to shift as he stared at a face with no whites and no pupils in them; just green from corner to corner, lit from the inside out and making everything look a certain way.To the side of him, in the open doorway, the backpack sat on the bed; all of in the black-and-blue he hadn’t in so long it seemed more like a dream even when he’d had it in his two hands.“...come on, man.”His voice was still level even as he leaned forward, just a bit closer to the mirror as his grip stayed as still and flat as his own words. His breathing was no different, no shake in it at all even when there should be even that little bit of panic.But no, just — calm.

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