[It's half a joke, half not, if she wants to roll around and get into more trouble. He isn't exactly going to object, and he's already tipping his head into her fingers. If this is what's going to help, he's happy to help.
It's hard to know what's going to help the most. He's already lost someone he loved to the ends of the earth, he knows something about what that feels like, but it's not exactly the same. There isn't a version of her walking around the city who has never met him. He can't imagine that. It makes him tighten his arms a little more, pulling her flush against him, like maybe enough contact will shield her from whatever emotions are roiling through her because of this mercurial city. That's not what he's for, he knows, but it's a time of night when maybe he can be excused his brief deeper feeling.]
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[It's half a joke, half not, if she wants to roll around and get into more trouble. He isn't exactly going to object, and he's already tipping his head into her fingers. If this is what's going to help, he's happy to help.
It's hard to know what's going to help the most. He's already lost someone he loved to the ends of the earth, he knows something about what that feels like, but it's not exactly the same. There isn't a version of her walking around the city who has never met him. He can't imagine that. It makes him tighten his arms a little more, pulling her flush against him, like maybe enough contact will shield her from whatever emotions are roiling through her because of this mercurial city. That's not what he's for, he knows, but it's a time of night when maybe he can be excused his brief deeper feeling.]
Not talk either?