[Frustration wells up next, because this feels like home all over again -- but worse in some ways. He's bound here like the rest of them, after all, so he has to be in the city. And the way he refuses . . . she doesn't want to think badly of it, but it's hard not to. Still he seems vague. Distant.]
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When?
[One last chance effort to get him to commit.]
[He . . . wants to see her. Right?]