She realised she wasn't inclined to offer up an immediate response. Not because she didn't have an answer. She did. Mostly it came from just a breath of hesitance. Maybe the concern from what the reception could be like, though that seemed silly. Gale wasn't going to judge her. Probably.
"Hm. Before the rest of us met, I was travelling on my own. I'll probably go back to doing that after everything."
Provided she survived. That seemed too dark to say, however. Better not to go down that pathway. "I guess I've gotten a little comfortable with everyone. I haven't done that with others. This travelling thing. I'm enjoying it. There's a part of me that will miss it."
Then she smiled and she gave him a very gentle push atop the small of his back. "But that's for a later time. And it's my problem, not yours. So let's focus on you, shall we? Or us, if you prefer."
If she flustered him, he'd stop asking about her, she suspected.
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She realised she wasn't inclined to offer up an immediate response. Not because she didn't have an answer. She did. Mostly it came from just a breath of hesitance. Maybe the concern from what the reception could be like, though that seemed silly. Gale wasn't going to judge her. Probably.
"Hm. Before the rest of us met, I was travelling on my own. I'll probably go back to doing that after everything."
Provided she survived. That seemed too dark to say, however. Better not to go down that pathway. "I guess I've gotten a little comfortable with everyone. I haven't done that with others. This travelling thing. I'm enjoying it. There's a part of me that will miss it."
Then she smiled and she gave him a very gentle push atop the small of his back. "But that's for a later time. And it's my problem, not yours. So let's focus on you, shall we? Or us, if you prefer."
If she flustered him, he'd stop asking about her, she suspected.