In this moment, afforded privacy and quiet, the veneer of easy, casual conversation that has carried them through all the mission thus far can drop.
She'd heard him coming. Turns towards him at that light touch to her back. For a moment, Derrica just looks at him. Loxley, glistening with salt and sand, tall and lean and so, so welcome. She feels the fluttering presence of warm emotion in her chest, newly named. Still terrifying.
"Hello," she echoes, soft on the heels of that appraisal. "How are you?"
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In this moment, afforded privacy and quiet, the veneer of easy, casual conversation that has carried them through all the mission thus far can drop.
She'd heard him coming. Turns towards him at that light touch to her back. For a moment, Derrica just looks at him. Loxley, glistening with salt and sand, tall and lean and so, so welcome. She feels the fluttering presence of warm emotion in her chest, newly named. Still terrifying.
"Hello," she echoes, soft on the heels of that appraisal. "How are you?"