[ So she's the strange one, then. Unsure what to do with that information, she falls silent.
We don't have to talk about that, [ she interrupts when he continues, stuttering through his incomplete sentences. She isn't equipped for that subject, nor the suffocating discomfort radiating from him, and his meaning is easy to interpret without requesting clarification.
There haven't been others. That much has been made clear to her without prying unnecessarily. She spreads herself back out beneath the blanket, absently picking lint off of its corner to give her idle hands something to occupy themselves with. ]
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[ So she's the strange one, then. Unsure what to do with that information, she falls silent.
We don't have to talk about that, [ she interrupts when he continues, stuttering through his incomplete sentences. She isn't equipped for that subject, nor the suffocating discomfort radiating from him, and his meaning is easy to interpret without requesting clarification.
There haven't been others. That much has been made clear to her without prying unnecessarily. She spreads herself back out beneath the blanket, absently picking lint off of its corner to give her idle hands something to occupy themselves with. ]