He hugged me to him, suddenly, fiercely, but was careful to keep part of his body away. Brown shouldn't have done what he did. Your security detail is waiting at the door, he said, and nodded toward the door in question. The stairs were actually part of the defenses of the Circus.
Everyone! His anger flared outward like hot water, and it was about waist high, and rising. He raised his robe around his shoulders as if he was cold, and would not look at either of us. I had some vague memory of clothes being ripped away, but I wasn't sure when, or even which of us had done it. It was true, though they'd amended the law so that you had to have more than one count of gaze-induced blood taking to execute someone.
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