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When The Front Door opens, surprise is too limited an emotion to explain Marian's expression. She comes through it, closing the door fast, and walking only slowly enough to be almost-formal.

To get outside the door, the bar, to get to the sunshine, the open space. Away from her bonds and bondage and both of them.

She doesn't think about people being on the other side of the back door as she thrust it open. Oops?

[Here until next ep.]

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And right where Kate was coming back inside from a light practice. She darted back but still took part of the door to her nose.

"Ow!" She yelped as she rubbed her nose.

"Oh, no! I'm so--Kate?"

Marian's pink is quickly turning red, even as she reached out a hand to lay it on the shoulder of the woman trying to look at her face -- at the damage she'd done.

"Are you alright?"

Kate pinched her nose where a thin line of red was emerging. Slight nosebleed out of the deal.

"Hang on," she commented in a nasal tone. "Need stob da bleeding"

Marian produced a handkerchief from somewhere in all those skirts, and offered to her. "I should have been watching where I was going. Let's sit you down somewhere."

"I should be good inna minube," Kate replied, but accepted the handkerchief as she applied pressure. Luckily it was a small nosebleed so it soon clotted.

"I am quite sorry. I should have been watching where I was going."

Once the bleeding has stopped, she let go of her nose.

Kate then replied, "You said that already, and yes you should have. But it wasn't worse. How have you been?"

She hadn't exactly, and specificism was important. But moving to focus on the question, she thinks about it. It's easy to almost say, better before she'd done that with the door.

But the truth is that still part of the highest point of today.

"Better; now." More with a glance to the place.

"That's good, me too. Well, except for the door," Small smile there.

"Been staying around here and healing from a battle back home. But it went well."

"How is your home faring?"

Kate sighed, wondering how to explain, "It's complicated. More than even it was during the Civil War and Registration Act mess. But we're taking action about it."

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