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The way she says your name is stiff, somehow. Like she's forcing herself to say it that way.

Easy

No backhanded retort, no reflexive insult.

Medium

Three breaths fill the room -- two in perfect sync.

Medium

One of her eyes disappears behind exhaled smoke. The other eye stays on you.

Medium

Someone leans on a fader marked 'The World' and all sound dips out for a moment.

Medium

The soft piano music rises again, nearby yet very far beyond you.

Medium

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The air in the apartment is very stale all of a sudden. Cigarette smoke swirls like a spell.

Challenging

Your heart begins to thunder.

Medium

A distant door slams somewhere beyond you. The soft, stifled piano carries over muffled laughter and child-velocity footsteps from the apartment above.

Challenging

Sudden, intense déjà vu curtains your mind.

Medium

A distant door slams somewhere beyond you. The soft, stifled piano carries over muffled laughter and child-velocity footsteps from the apartment above.

Medium

A distant door slams somewhere beyond you. The soft, stifled piano carries over muffled laughter and child-velocity footsteps from the apartment above.

Medium

A distant door slams somewhere beyond you. The soft, stifled piano carries over muffled laughter and child-velocity footsteps from the apartment above.

Easy

Her fingers are spangled with violet glitter.

Medium

The best cigarette you've had in years.

Challenging

She looks at you like this is the most salient point in the world.

Legendary

Where have you heard this music before?

Challenging

The shadow of a passing aero-tram flashes across the girl's face like a zoetrope as she glances up.

Medium

The soft piano music rises again, nearby yet very far beyond you.

Easy

Her eyes flash with new tones, almost finding a unified colour.

Easy

The piano from the next room still plays, the melody repeating, softly insistent. You are dimly aware that the melody has changed.

Easy

The piano from a room beyond this one still plays, the melody repeating, softly insistent.

Medium

Her eyes are two different colours: amber and ash.

Easy

Carried from a nearby apartment, a piano melody floats through the room as if on small wings.

Medium

His eyes cross.

Easy

Easy

Behind his glasses, his eyes glisten.

Medium

You feel goosebumps stand on your shins.

Formidable

Darkness in his eyes. Inviting.

Medium

Not a single twitch of recognition.

Challenging

Is that a frown? He's puzzling it out. Give him a moment.

Medium

His cleats go CLICK CLACK on the hard ground.

Medium

His eyes lose focus and his lips move as he concentrates on deciphering this new information.

Medium

Easy

Medium

Behind his glasses, his eyes glisten.

Legendary

He smiles with his eyes alone. You recognise yourself in the expression.

Medium

Mothball smell. Many seasons old.

Trivial

Ten thousand needles across your skin.

Easy

You smell smoke and burning.

Medium

You hear the metal rattling in its case -- you feel tiny sparks leaping over your skin -- almost familiar now.

Medium

Medium

Sparks dance across the conductors on your back.

Medium

Eyes gleaming, sexually charged.

Medium

The room spins, then shatters.

Medium

All sound from the city above has evaporated. Like you were never in a city at all.

Formidable

Reanimate your double. (Use Gonza's stamp.)

Easy

His chest keeps rising and falling in slow, uneven swells.