Just this one crucial word speaks so much. It leaves him dumbstruck for a few long seconds. Then, all at once, his expression softens as if he'd been wearing a dried clay mask that's become heated and flexible once more.
"I think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to desire. It's only natural, isn't it? To want the person who comes first in your heart to think always of you first as well? To think of them going to someone else instead can't help but make one question the reason why. I'm relieved to know you and River have already begun to broach this subject. I'll admit to you, now, that I was keeping some distance because I was not quite sure where your feelings on me fell. I wanted you to have time to consider it." That worry has been put to rest now.
"I know this is very unfamiliar territory for you, but I do want to think that you and I are compatible as friends. There are certain aspects of our lives and upbringing, I think, that we may understand better about each other than River naturally can."
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Just this one crucial word speaks so much. It leaves him dumbstruck for a few long seconds. Then, all at once, his expression softens as if he'd been wearing a dried clay mask that's become heated and flexible once more.
"I think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to desire. It's only natural, isn't it? To want the person who comes first in your heart to think always of you first as well? To think of them going to someone else instead can't help but make one question the reason why. I'm relieved to know you and River have already begun to broach this subject. I'll admit to you, now, that I was keeping some distance because I was not quite sure where your feelings on me fell. I wanted you to have time to consider it." That worry has been put to rest now.
"I know this is very unfamiliar territory for you, but I do want to think that you and I are compatible as friends. There are certain aspects of our lives and upbringing, I think, that we may understand better about each other than River naturally can."