[ Nina doesn't sigh when he lets go of her hand or indulge in a moue of disappointment when he puts on his shirt. Her attention is level upon him, a steady weight. The more he talks, the more she realizes how this must have tapped into something deep inside him, and the more determined she is not to be moved until she understands all the ways this experience and his understanding overlap.
...she's a little worried. There was something Other about the experience, but... she does not think it was Djel. And she knows how Matthias, Matthias who has told her he is not her enemy, might respond. He'd have thought himself forsaken and cast out, having not yet come around to what she keeps trying to tell him -- that the gifts Grisha have connect to life, and are not perversions of life. To have thought that, and then experienced a visitation from a spirit that aligns up enough with his beliefs that he might feel affirmed.... and then to discover it may not be that at all...
Yes, she's a little worried. But she'll wait and see. ]
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...she's a little worried. There was something Other about the experience, but... she does not think it was Djel. And she knows how Matthias, Matthias who has told her he is not her enemy, might respond. He'd have thought himself forsaken and cast out, having not yet come around to what she keeps trying to tell him -- that the gifts Grisha have connect to life, and are not perversions of life. To have thought that, and then experienced a visitation from a spirit that aligns up enough with his beliefs that he might feel affirmed.... and then to discover it may not be that at all...
Yes, she's a little worried. But she'll wait and see. ]
Yes, I remember swimming.