I'm not trying to fool you, [ she repeats, hearing what he's not saying. This isn't an apology; he doesn't owe her one. It is an explanation. They are still learning each other. He was only himself and that is all she wants from him.
She does feel a bit of a pang at hearing devious - treacherous - again, a bit of fear. But, well, she is devious. And he doesn't seem to mind. And she isn't being devious with him, and somehow that's all right too.
This is, if not the first time, than one of the first times they have been this close, pressed against each other since they arrived in this weird planet, dripping in goo. It feels like having a bone set, to be close to him again, like some part of her heart that was holding its breath finally got to sigh with relief, and then inhale.
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She does feel a bit of a pang at hearing devious - treacherous - again, a bit of fear. But, well, she is devious. And he doesn't seem to mind. And she isn't being devious with him, and somehow that's all right too.
This is, if not the first time, than one of the first times they have been this close, pressed against each other since they arrived in this weird planet, dripping in goo. It feels like having a bone set, to be close to him again, like some part of her heart that was holding its breath finally got to sigh with relief, and then inhale.
Lightly: ] So count yourself lucky.