OCEANS.
The elevator doors slid open, and the first thing I saw was Kiss.
She was standing against the wall with her eyes glassy and her jaw set, and the tears sitting at the corners of her eyes that hadn't fallen yet, and the sight of them hit me somewhere so immediate and so complete that I stopped moving for exactly one second.
The smirk on Jorinda's face died the moment she registered who had stepped out of that elevator. I watched the confidence drain out of her expression and get replaced by something she reassembled into composure almost fast enough for it to look natural.
"Mr. Stark." She straightened, adjusted her coffee cup, and produced a smile that had nothing genuine in it. "I'm so glad you're here, actually..."
I walked toward them.
"...because I was just trying to help
