( She can understand that. The vials -- she didn't know what they were, wouldn't have, other than to be curious. The one benefit to her being sick and tortured and out of her own head all of that June, there was so much she hadn't known until her head began to clear.
He gets another squeeze, a hug without asking him to return it. )
You weren't expecting me to ask after that?
( Now she does sound curious, though how she feels is different -- not that curiosity isn't partly emotional, but that she understands a loss and a desire to preserve. Remembering him after Elmer's world, and what Elmer told her later, about the wine. He does a lot of things he doesn't want commented on, she realizes, probably more than she'll ever know. Not even all of them are ones that people generally don't want known, for more nefarious reasons. )
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He gets another squeeze, a hug without asking him to return it. )
You weren't expecting me to ask after that?
( Now she does sound curious, though how she feels is different -- not that curiosity isn't partly emotional, but that she understands a loss and a desire to preserve. Remembering him after Elmer's world, and what Elmer told her later, about the wine. He does a lot of things he doesn't want commented on, she realizes, probably more than she'll ever know. Not even all of them are ones that people generally don't want known, for more nefarious reasons. )