the words loop in her head endlessly as she goes about her day - checking once more along the horizon for sign of anyone else (Mayoi? Noah? anyone...?), before retiring upstairs, back to the fourth floor.
she feels lighter, even with all the knots in her stomach. vindicated, even. for trusting, for believing in spite of everything. there's still something in her that fears a rebuke, a shoe drop, or something...but Darin's already proved he's up to the challenge. she can be too, can't she?
the stone is still propped up against a corner in her room. she'd found it staring back at her when she did her first checks around the place and, after a quick rubbing and some defiant footnotes, she'd gone and covered it with a shawl, unable to stand to look at it.
that's how it remains even now as she's set to laying out dusted and damaged notebooks out along her desk and windowsills when she hears his footfalls first, then the knock.]
You look better. [she smiles slightly, stepping back after opening the door to allow him entry.]
no subject
the words loop in her head endlessly as she goes about her day - checking once more along the horizon for sign of anyone else (Mayoi? Noah? anyone...?), before retiring upstairs, back to the fourth floor.
she feels lighter, even with all the knots in her stomach. vindicated, even. for trusting, for believing in spite of everything. there's still something in her that fears a rebuke, a shoe drop, or something...but Darin's already proved he's up to the challenge. she can be too, can't she?
the stone is still propped up against a corner in her room. she'd found it staring back at her when she did her first checks around the place and, after a quick rubbing and some defiant footnotes, she'd gone and covered it with a shawl, unable to stand to look at it.
that's how it remains even now as she's set to laying out dusted and damaged notebooks out along her desk and windowsills when she hears his footfalls first, then the knock.]
You look better. [she smiles slightly, stepping back after opening the door to allow him entry.]