[ When the sleeve is eased back down over her arm, the coat moved into place, she seems to relax with another short puff of breath, settling against him.
Verso doesn't have to mention Pierre for her to pick up on it. And though it's true -- once he's back, she intends to spend as little time apart from him as possible -- Sciel also doesn't mention that fact. Even if she's completely unapologetic in how she talks about her husband and doesn't at all dim her overwhelming excitement for his return, she also isn't cruel. The man currently keeping her alive is still important to her.
The possibility that Pierre could return had never been the reason she'd pushed for a more casual relationship, of course, but...hopefully it helps now. They'd agreed, hadn't they? That this would be better, keeping things purely physical?
Knowing what she knows of Verso now, though -- with all his masks -- she has to wonder what he really had thought, through all of it. ]
I will g-go skiiing. [ Sciel corrects. ] S'long as someone's ar-round to watch my s-step. And...actually t-teach me.
[ Also, if he thinks she's going to let him drop off the face of the earth once they retake the Canvas, he's got another thing coming. ]
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Verso doesn't have to mention Pierre for her to pick up on it. And though it's true -- once he's back, she intends to spend as little time apart from him as possible -- Sciel also doesn't mention that fact. Even if she's completely unapologetic in how she talks about her husband and doesn't at all dim her overwhelming excitement for his return, she also isn't cruel. The man currently keeping her alive is still important to her.
The possibility that Pierre could return had never been the reason she'd pushed for a more casual relationship, of course, but...hopefully it helps now. They'd agreed, hadn't they? That this would be better, keeping things purely physical?
Knowing what she knows of Verso now, though -- with all his masks -- she has to wonder what he really had thought, through all of it. ]
I will g-go skiiing. [ Sciel corrects. ] S'long as someone's ar-round to watch my s-step. And...actually t-teach me.
[ Also, if he thinks she's going to let him drop off the face of the earth once they retake the Canvas, he's got another thing coming. ]