[She's generally content to keep digging holes for herself until she hears the tone in his voice.

Oh.

He didn't want to pretend this wasn't some sort of huge mistake? She... hadn't really expected that.

Honestly hearing him talk sounded a lot like the feelings going through her head right about now. It grounded the more frantic thoughts and gave her something to focus on. It helped.]

Oh.

[Spoken like a true word smith.

She paused briefly and gave herself a bit of time to consider this more carefully.]

I mean. I haven't either.

If you don't want to pretend it didn't happen. I guess we don't have to.

...But... What do you want to do if we don't do that?

A-and I'm not trying to throw a lot of pressure on you to figure that out either.

It's just.

Well you said it. Emotions are hard.