"Thanks," Tally sniffles, taking the shirt. It kind of smells like the wild, which only makes things worse. "He knew she liked him, but I didn't until Shay saw me with these gloves David gave me. In the Smoke, you can't just get new things out of the hole in the wall. Everything's handmade. The gloves were really valuable. Shay and I had the same size hands, and David gave them to me and not her." Everything is coming back in the telling: the way David had called her ugly face beautiful, how he'd kissed her, how he'd said she was more serious than Shay. "She confronted me and I stopped wearing them, but then David introduced me to his parents..." A sob catches in Tally's throat thinking about Az.
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