[She takes it, automatically, starts eating without much thought. It's food - calories, something to keep her going. Tess eats to live, with few exceptions.
Normally, she'd be a little pushy - she usually is, with Joel. She usually is with everyone. Prodding him to just get on with it, already, C'mon, Tex, spit it out. It's how their relationship works, mostly. Or rather, how it worked, back in Boston, back before she'd gone and gotten herself fucking infected. Like an idiot. And then somehow ruined things by being here and disappearing again.
She can't find it in her to push him, now. Not while she's on such uncertain footing with him. Somehow, she's always sort of known the parameters of their relationship, but now it's like she's walking on eggshells. Or worse, rotten ice that's about to break under her feet.]
Thanks. [She manages, at least, to break the silence, thanking him for the food.]
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Normally, she'd be a little pushy - she usually is, with Joel. She usually is with everyone. Prodding him to just get on with it, already, C'mon, Tex, spit it out. It's how their relationship works, mostly. Or rather, how it worked, back in Boston, back before she'd gone and gotten herself fucking infected. Like an idiot. And then somehow ruined things by being here and disappearing again.
She can't find it in her to push him, now. Not while she's on such uncertain footing with him. Somehow, she's always sort of known the parameters of their relationship, but now it's like she's walking on eggshells. Or worse, rotten ice that's about to break under her feet.]
Thanks. [She manages, at least, to break the silence, thanking him for the food.]