Well, our situation is rather unusual. Unless you regularly have people who call you friend that are utter strangers to you popping up in your Thedas.
Why not? [The question is all but torn from her throat. She feels trapped. Caged. And she is a hairsbreadth away from pacing to the end of her invisible tether.] Why is that so impossible? We’re practically there already. [It’s not what she wants, not truly, but what she wants.... is complicated, and not possible. And why she wishes that she could manage more than three feet’s distance from him.] Because it’s safer. [SHIT.] Keeping my distance would be safer.
And you haven’t insulted me [His name, his personal name is on her lips and she swallows it. No. She’s not ready for that, here, with everything else. It’s bad enough he alternates with annoying frequency between the two in her thoughts. With her thinking of him as Cullen more and more frequently.] Far from it.
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Why not? [The question is all but torn from her throat. She feels trapped. Caged. And she is a hairsbreadth away from pacing to the end of her invisible tether.] Why is that so impossible? We’re practically there already. [It’s not what she wants, not truly, but what she wants.... is complicated, and not possible. And why she wishes that she could manage more than three feet’s distance from him.] Because it’s safer. [SHIT.] Keeping my distance would be safer.
And you haven’t insulted me [His name, his personal name is on her lips and she swallows it. No. She’s not ready for that, here, with everything else. It’s bad enough he alternates with annoying frequency between the two in her thoughts. With her thinking of him as Cullen more and more frequently.] Far from it.