For a moment, she blinked at the far distance, swallowing hard.

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She did not appear to cry, as she did during the viewing of chilling crime-scene footage on Tuesday, but she blinked, looked down and exhibited small, absent-minded jaw movements.

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She looked at me and blinked.

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He woke as she was considering these things, and blinked at her, and then at the faeries, all attired for war, and turned on his side and went back to sleep.

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