[ That's the chuckle of 'should I let this guy be at my back right now.' Now that they're talking about it, she's realizing, well, that is his grandpa and he has been talking about the familiarity of that darkness.
But it's been clinging to her too. She can't disparage him for it.
Regardless, it's a bleak picture. In many ways, for them both. She goes back to working on the fuel injector. It comes free now, and she starts to wiggle her way back out of the crawl space. She sort of figures that her movement will cue him and she doesn't need to worry about a heads up. This may not be true if he's still deliberately avoiding staring at her. ]
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But it's been clinging to her too. She can't disparage him for it.
Regardless, it's a bleak picture. In many ways, for them both. She goes back to working on the fuel injector. It comes free now, and she starts to wiggle her way back out of the crawl space. She sort of figures that her movement will cue him and she doesn't need to worry about a heads up. This may not be true if he's still deliberately avoiding staring at her. ]