Okay. Yeah, that's — that's where I'm staying, usually. [ In the Down apartments, although he hasn't had to share a room with anyone else for a while, but he makes a mental note then and there to find out which one she's in so it'll be easy for him to find her if they get separated. He doesn't mention that those times he isn't sleeping in the slightly more rundown unit are a fairly recent occurrence, and only because he's been spending the night at Poe's apartment in the Up instead — but it's another thing to bring up to her, eventually.
Not now, when the question she asks him is more tangled than she knows, evidenced by the way his fingers reflexively tighten their grip around her hand before he releases a sigh and then, he realizes, she may not want to keep holding on once he says what he needs to. ]
Sometimes. Not — not always. [ Meaning that there have been times here where he hasn't been compelled at all to pursue the requirements of this city with other people, that there have been times where he's chosen it — that he's still choosing it, for the most part, especially now that they've ruled him a citizen and apparently a graduate of this dumb LIEs program once he hit the one-year mark. ] I have friends here. People I trust. People that I'd rather...
[ He trails off, the implication being that for him, it's better to pursue any of this with a friend over a stranger, and after a minute he gives her hand a small tug, looking up with an attempt at a smile. ] Poe showed up, you know. About a month ago.
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Not now, when the question she asks him is more tangled than she knows, evidenced by the way his fingers reflexively tighten their grip around her hand before he releases a sigh and then, he realizes, she may not want to keep holding on once he says what he needs to. ]
Sometimes. Not — not always. [ Meaning that there have been times here where he hasn't been compelled at all to pursue the requirements of this city with other people, that there have been times where he's chosen it — that he's still choosing it, for the most part, especially now that they've ruled him a citizen and apparently a graduate of this dumb LIEs program once he hit the one-year mark. ] I have friends here. People I trust. People that I'd rather...
[ He trails off, the implication being that for him, it's better to pursue any of this with a friend over a stranger, and after a minute he gives her hand a small tug, looking up with an attempt at a smile. ] Poe showed up, you know. About a month ago.