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"If there is something to be known, I'll find it." 

She wasn't sure what she had been expecting him to say, but it definitely wasn't that. Alivia squinted at Cinar in the half-light, thinking that there may be more to him than meets the eye. She'd never heard him talk that way before. Usually he seemed so.. polished. She felt like she had glimpsed something beneath his gilded surface that maybe she wasn't supposed to see. That feeling was further cemented by his hasty exit. 

"But-!" Her protest was too small and too late. He had already disappeared into the rain. Alivia was left behind in the gathering darkness, all alone with her racing thoughts.