[ She holds his gaze for a few seconds too long - much longer than she would've been able to back when she first came here. Easy as her lies are to read, whatever emotion flits through them now is oddly opaque and difficult to decipher. And then... her shoulders don't quite sag but some line of tension in them comes loose and the breath that flutes out of her nose is almost (but not quite) a sigh. ]
Mm. As usual.
[ She doesn't need to be dragged over this time - she comes close of her own accord, close enough for her knees to bump his thigh and her hair to spill over her shoulder and onto his. If she was once an animal facing a predator's bared teeth, where has all that fear suddenly gone? ]
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Mm. As usual.
[ She doesn't need to be dragged over this time - she comes close of her own accord, close enough for her knees to bump his thigh and her hair to spill over her shoulder and onto his. If she was once an animal facing a predator's bared teeth, where has all that fear suddenly gone? ]
Then go ahead and do as you please.