Sophia felt her breath hitch in her throat. Time seemed to slow down, like every ticking moment of the clock was meant to bring the both of them right here, and now that they were here, now that he was sitting across from her, saying words they both knew he could never take back, time seemed done with them. It stood still, so they realized how crucial this moment was, how crucial those words were. She swallowed, blinking, but it would take a movement stronger, far larger than that to knock off the allure of everything that had stopped in that moment. Time has stood still right after it has conveyed them right here, and there was no denying it. Even when they would be just portraits in the pages of history, Sophia hoped there would be a page that would tell of her rather bizarre experienc