[Oh, good. He settles in next to her and then his arms find her and it's more than she was expecting, especially given the distance he's been keeping between them since she showed up. She takes full advantage, nestling in close just for the feel of a body against hers.
And then she listens, her fingers idly tracing through his free hand. It's more details that sound so foreign to her, so teetering on the edge of unbelievable, but this time, there's a running theme that she can relate to. She's never really had someone like who he's describing, but she's had her fair share of complicated relationships. It's a human thing more than a who-comes-from-where thing, and there's grounding in that.]
She sounds like a friend. Maybe not a capital-F Friend, but you don't go through all that with a person and not stick a special note in their file.
[As off-base as the comparison is, she's reminded of Stewart. She wouldn't call Stewart her friend, not by a long shot, but she did start a scrap with Tanis and her boys over him. She'd do it again. She'd put money that Haymitch would do the same for this woman.]
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And then she listens, her fingers idly tracing through his free hand. It's more details that sound so foreign to her, so teetering on the edge of unbelievable, but this time, there's a running theme that she can relate to. She's never really had someone like who he's describing, but she's had her fair share of complicated relationships. It's a human thing more than a who-comes-from-where thing, and there's grounding in that.]
She sounds like a friend. Maybe not a capital-F Friend, but you don't go through all that with a person and not stick a special note in their file.
[As off-base as the comparison is, she's reminded of Stewart. She wouldn't call Stewart her friend, not by a long shot, but she did start a scrap with Tanis and her boys over him. She'd do it again. She'd put money that Haymitch would do the same for this woman.]
What's her name?