[Hungry, for Tess, is pretty relative. She's learned to deal with scarcity, over the years, and it's been a long time since she's been anything like 'well fed'.
On the other hand, turning down food when it's offered is, in her experience, not the smartest. And besides all that, this is Joel offering. Maybe she's reading too much into it - she does that, sometimes, with him. A consequence of the fact that he isn't good at, well, talking.
Not that she's going to hold him accountable for that. She's just as bad.
So she shrugs, letting him lead the way - privacy is probably better, yes.]
I could eat.
[Keeping it casual, keeping her voice light. Because otherwise she might yell or cry - neither of which, she thinks, will help fix this. And she does want to fix this - whatever this is.]
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On the other hand, turning down food when it's offered is, in her experience, not the smartest. And besides all that, this is Joel offering. Maybe she's reading too much into it - she does that, sometimes, with him. A consequence of the fact that he isn't good at, well, talking.
Not that she's going to hold him accountable for that. She's just as bad.
So she shrugs, letting him lead the way - privacy is probably better, yes.]
I could eat.
[Keeping it casual, keeping her voice light. Because otherwise she might yell or cry - neither of which, she thinks, will help fix this. And she does want to fix this - whatever this is.]