[SERA — POV]
She ran into him by accident.
That was the thing — it wasn't arranged, which meant there wasn't the structure of a meeting or a specific reason that required both of them to be there. She was cutting through the Ash Market at the end of the day and he came around a corner and they almost walked into each other and then stood there on the wet pavement being two people who had run into each other by accident.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi," he said, which was the first time she'd heard him say something as unadorned as that and it made him seem briefly — ordinary. In a way that was not a reduction.
"Where are you going," she said.
"Nowhere specific." He looked at the market street. "Thinking."
"Me too."
They stood there for a moment.
"We could think in the same direction," he sai
