[ they are really just one long incredibly awkward incident
Oh. Oh, no, she didn't just try to shut him down with rubbing his promise in his face. He pulls his hand out of hers as quick as if she's tried to cast Fire between them and burned him in the process, fingers curling into fists at his sides as he takes a few short steps away from the edge of the table. And her.
To treat what he'd said, then, as something even nearly so trivial as his stupid, irritating motion sickness -- it's offensive, in the sudden, irrational way only the very young find things so. Because he still isn't strong enough to protect her at all, and it hardly matters that she didn't mean to remind him of it. ]
I said drop it. [ The damage is done; he's withdrawn. It's over. ] Let's just go.
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they are really just one long incredibly awkward incidentOh. Oh, no, she didn't just try to shut him down with rubbing his promise in his face. He pulls his hand out of hers as quick as if she's tried to cast Fire between them and burned him in the process, fingers curling into fists at his sides as he takes a few short steps away from the edge of the table. And her.
To treat what he'd said, then, as something even nearly so trivial as his stupid, irritating motion sickness -- it's offensive, in the sudden, irrational way only the very young find things so. Because he still isn't strong enough to protect her at all, and it hardly matters that she didn't mean to remind him of it. ]
I said drop it. [ The damage is done; he's withdrawn. It's over. ] Let's just go.