The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, current…

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The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't. ✨ Laini Taylor (2014). Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.26, Hachette UK
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