This city's a wash of strange stories. So if you want to talk about it, I can try to keep up.

[Even without the name, he could have read that she was new in town in a small collection of ways. With it, there's just one more reason not to want to leave her until she's through whatever impulse the city's decided to play out through her.

And it is a trick of the city, he's pretty sure. His focus flicks over the detail of the golden trinket she's holding, and connects a few more dots.]

But I'm going to need to take that watch from you, first.