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"When did you learn to cook?" Chloe Bishop asked, her voice softening as the domestic warmth of the meal finally began to thaw the icy silence.

"Studying abroad," Xavier Grayson replied. His answers remained clipped, but the sharp, glacial edge of his voice had smoothed into something more approachable.

"Foreign food really doesn't compare to ours," Chloe mused