[ He's the one who wanted her to put effort into it - he's just going to have to deal if he finds her effort irritating, because she finds him walking away equally irritating. There's a balance and that doesn't fit into it.

She doesn't miss where his arms rest, how he's holding himself, because his body language is something she's very carefully attuned to even if body language in general wasn't something she's always paying close attention to. She's not touching his mind because there are rules and agreements, but she steps forward again anyways. ]

I asked because I wanted you to tell me. [ She's just going to skip the file comment, mostly because it's completely accurate. ] Your reluctance to tell me is just telling me that I was right to want you to.