The look on his face spoke volumes, even to her spell-addled brain. She made a misstep. But where? Where did it happen? What did she do wrong?
And, more importantly, how could she fix it? She was never good at expressing herself when it came to these things, at explaining herself—either she knew the exact right thing to say, or the exact wrong one. At being willing to talk about why she did what she did, felt how she felt. And it seemed that she managed to strike out so thoroughly here.
He said something earlier. Why couldn't she remember it? Something on the battlefield. About empathy, about connectedness. "This" wasn't so bad.
She slowly settled (he told asked her to, after all), before slowly, shyly reaching out her hand to him. On the battlefield, it was fine, but here... ]
Don't. It's okay.
[ Take it or don't, Syrlya, the choice was yours. ]
Can you... keep me company for a while? Please?
[ Maybe if she kept him there, she could solve this for herself. She could figure out where she went wrong. ]
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The look on his face spoke volumes, even to her spell-addled brain. She made a misstep. But where? Where did it happen? What did she do wrong?
And, more importantly, how could she fix it? She was never good at expressing herself when it came to these things, at explaining herself—either she knew the exact right thing to say, or the exact wrong one. At being willing to talk about why she did what she did, felt how she felt. And it seemed that she managed to strike out so thoroughly here.
He said something earlier. Why couldn't she remember it? Something on the battlefield. About empathy, about connectedness. "This" wasn't so bad.
She slowly settled (he
toldasked her to, after all), before slowly, shyly reaching out her hand to him. On the battlefield, it was fine, but here... ]Don't. It's okay.
[ Take it or don't, Syrlya, the choice was yours. ]
Can you... keep me company for a while? Please?
[ Maybe if she kept him there, she could solve this for herself. She could figure out where she went wrong. ]