[ She has so many good ideas, really. It's amazing how many good ideas she has, and how well she can figure him out, because psyching himself up for this and dwelling on what's about to happen are both exactly what he's going to do if left to his own thoughts and patterns, and while neither one of them is particularly helpful, they happen to be even worse in that they actively prevent the other from progressing, while simultaneously not letting the other cease. He's very good at closed-circuits.
So the question sort of takes him by surprise, for a number of reasons, but most of them flutter right out on the pitter-pat of his too-fast heartbeat as he looks at her again before replying. ]
Yeah. [ And he doesn't sound surprised so much as he does like he's reminding himself, just like she was hoping. He trusts her. He doesn't have to worry about this turning into something out of his control again, not when she's actually attempting to wrest control back for him out of the chaos. He trusts her to help him like that, and it's scary, and it's new, but it's the truth. ] Yeah, I trust you.
we can just say we've been sleeping for the last... five days.
So the question sort of takes him by surprise, for a number of reasons, but most of them flutter right out on the pitter-pat of his too-fast heartbeat as he looks at her again before replying. ]
Yeah. [ And he doesn't sound surprised so much as he does like he's reminding himself, just like she was hoping. He trusts her. He doesn't have to worry about this turning into something out of his control again, not when she's actually attempting to wrest control back for him out of the chaos. He trusts her to help him like that, and it's scary, and it's new, but it's the truth. ] Yeah, I trust you.