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[A pause, but when he answers, the smile is plain in his voice.]

You're welcome.

[Another pause, this one a bit more fraught:]

I, um... I've been thinking. About what you said.

[nadasharillen]

[ What does it say, that even the strained silences between them are beginning to be tempered by the small comfort of familiarity? It is easier and easier, as time goes on, to wait patiently for him without being drawn into fretting herself.

Not always, but sometimes. This time. ]

Oh?

[onlyhymns]

[It's still difficult, even though he can't see her face. Technically, he's sitting by himself.
It's fine.]

I'm... uh... if you're.... [Get it together.]

...I'd like to. If. You still want me to.

[nadasharillen]

[ and just like that, all of a sudden, the stars she's been watching contemplatively don't seem so far away or lonely. Nari smiles softly, and then realizes that she has perhaps paused a bit too long for Cade's comfort. ]

I... yes. Yes.

[ shyly: ] I thought, since it's already sort of... ours...

[ "ours". there's an odd lightness in her chest, a tingle in her cheeks, to say that. a bit of self-conscious guilt, mixed in, considering that she's within a quarter mile of the fires of the Arlathvhen. ]

We might just... move to that room?

[ quickly preparing to backpedal: ] Unless that would be strange.

[onlyhymns]

[Oh. Not quite what he expected, but... better, actually. Less Myr-- not that he doesn't like Myr, of course-- but less.... elves? No. Quit while you're ahead, Harimann.]

I. Um. [Words. Say words.] Yes. I mean no. Not-- [His blushing is nearly audible.]

...yes, that sounds nice.

[nadasharillen]

[ she's relieved enough to heave an actual sigh of it, which is both a little startling and makes her worry that he'll interpret it some other way, since he can't see her face. She's also not sure how to explain without sounding like an idiot, so she just forges onwards, tries to put the smile in her voice. ]

I'll be back in... I gave you the key, didn't I?

[ had she? ]

If you wanted to move anything. While I'm gone.

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Um. Yes. [He hears the sigh, but is rational enough to assume it's... something else. After all, it seems unlike her to double back on such a serious request.]

I... will. Thank you.

[nadasharillen]

[ Nari's not really sure what else there is to say, which normally means closing the connection when it's a conversation over crystals, but she doesn't want to go back to what she had been doing, lying by herself and thinking too much.

And so: ]

...Where are you? I'm in a tree.

[onlyhymns]

[Cade is terrible at small talk, because Cade is terrible at most talk. The question takes him by surprise, but he laughs faintly as a result.]

Um... Still in the office. [It's late, but not too late for him to catch the last ferry.] Minrathous gave us a lot to process.

[nadasharillen]

[ It had been like hearing a story told from far away; several of the Inquisition contingent gathering around to listen together in horror as events unfolded hundreds of miles away.

The reminder makes the slump she's been in most of the day seem small by comparison, which is honestly not unwelcome. ]

We heard. Simon went, didn't he? And Myr? I haven't... did they make it back? Are they okay?