She understands the importance of that reputation. It's one piece of all of his layers of armor she does not expect him to let go of; he had cultivated it for far too long to let it go by now, and she thinks she can live with that. He's working on the rest.

She nods, a small smile on her lips. She knows those sort of things still make him feel like his misstepping somehow. Too new, still, even all these months later, to be so...open. But he's doing it, the effort is all that really mattered to her when she gave him that ultimatum. She simply refused to be left in some kind of eternal limbo with him.

"I don't care," she says simply, shrugging a little. "I just want to do it with you, whatever it is." That's the part that matters the most: the time she gets to spend with him. What they're doing, how that time is spent? Doesn't really matter at all.