Chapter 8: Worse Than Advertised

Nine candies, and Rennie spends this whole chapter deciding who they're for. What I like is that she never rations them — no single candy held back to test the water. She fills both his hands at once, because it does not occur to her that a gift can be turned down. He counts them without deciding to. Two people running quiet arithmetic about each other, neither one calling it anything. Which of them do you think understood what just happened?
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