[He snorts softly as he takes a sip. It’s way better than he’d hoped.]
Dunno. She likes watching me more than she likes talking. Ain’t heard a peep out of her directed at me before.
[Not that she avoids him. They just don’t talk, and that’s just how it is. He recognizes what she is, used to be even, from the way she carries herself, and that’s reason enough that he doesn’t want to bother her if she doesn’t want him to. They’ve both enough to carry already.]
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Dunno. She likes watching me more than she likes talking. Ain’t heard a peep out of her directed at me before.
[Not that she avoids him. They just don’t talk, and that’s just how it is. He recognizes what she is, used to be even, from the way she carries herself, and that’s reason enough that he doesn’t want to bother her if she doesn’t want him to. They’ve both enough to carry already.]