[He looks away from her, unnerved by the changing scenery, but his eyes find her almost right away regardless. It's a bit of a pattern with him, isn't it?]
[Always keep an eye on the important women. They have an uncanny tendency to wind up dead or injured or otherwise torn away from him.]
no subject
[Always keep an eye on the important women. They have an uncanny tendency to wind up dead or injured or otherwise torn away from him.]
[He breathes in. One.]
Carmen?
[Her, or Caroline, or neither. (It's a trick.)]
[But yet he can't help reaching.]