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Appearances Over Time
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That's what we tell ourselves we'd do.
Eric's door opened across the hall.
He whispered, The voice outside changed, just slightly, like a person adjusting to a new idea.
"'Eric?'
it called.
"'Eric, is that you?'
Every hair on my arms went up.
There's a specific kind of cold that isn't temperature.
It's recognition of something that should not be possible.
We had not said Eric's name outside.
Not loudly.
Not recently.
The voice had guessed, and it had guessed correctly, and that should have been coincidence.
But it didn't feel like it."
It felt like a hand reaching for the right tool in a drawer.
Eric whispered back before any of us could stop him.
"'Who is this?'
The voice answered immediately, too quickly, like it had been waiting for permission.
"'Thank God,' it said.
"'I'm—' It paused, and in that pause I heard something that made my stomach tighten, the faintest click, like teeth touching."