THIRTY-SIX
Being a spy is being alone and learning how to make fear nothing at all. When fear is gone, the focus remains, and you become more than others can become. It is a sacrifice none of those movies ever capture. Glamour is fake. It's all forms of pain. In reality, to become a thing, others are not; you are doing something others aren't. Spies are only usual to other spies. I sat in the darkness and waited for my eyes to become accustomed to the shapes and silhouettes that took on a more sinister identity without any light. The armchair was my throne and my cocoon as my emotions waxed and waned, my imagination ever-transforming it into the very thing required. I heard the key turn in the lock of the front door, but remained perfectly still. The sounds of someone familiar with the surroundings
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