The first is that this dinner is a little bit last minute. Darcy's invited Helena over to eat a number of times before, but usually with more warning than this. Then there's how the pair of them act- it doesn't look like they've had a fight per se, but the usual ease of their connection while Darcy was helping to cook (nothing strenuous) very quickly quietens into something tense.
So something is up. And Darcy is looking into the venison stew in their bowl so intently that they may very well establish a psychic connection and remember a past life where they were a deer. It's not that they think Phil will take it badly, but they do remember the... 'pirate empress' conversation, and part of them is worried he won't approve. Think it's too rushed, or they're too young, or even worse- get stuck in his memories of Rita and get even more melancholy than he had been.
So it's a very very quiet and tense dinner table. Hope Phil enjoys that.
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The first is that this dinner is a little bit last minute. Darcy's invited Helena over to eat a number of times before, but usually with more warning than this. Then there's how the pair of them act- it doesn't look like they've had a fight per se, but the usual ease of their connection while Darcy was helping to cook (nothing strenuous) very quickly quietens into something tense.
So something is up. And Darcy is looking into the venison stew in their bowl so intently that they may very well establish a psychic connection and remember a past life where they were a deer. It's not that they think Phil will take it badly, but they do remember the... 'pirate empress' conversation, and part of them is worried he won't approve. Think it's too rushed, or they're too young, or even worse- get stuck in his memories of Rita and get even more melancholy than he had been.
So it's a very very quiet and tense dinner table. Hope Phil enjoys that.