[ Feels safer, she says -- and his heart aches for her, with the realization that she must have been so terribly let down, that this is the first thing she thinks. He doesn't try to argue, though. It's not something you can talk someone out of. But it's something you can show, and he resolves to try. To be her friend, if he can, despite the distance. It's not even that she's easy to talk to, and she is, but that feeling of connection between them feels somehow... inevitable.
Instead, he asks a question. It's not meant to change her mind or challenge what she's said; it's in earnest, and he asks her quietly: ]
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[ Feels safer, she says -- and his heart aches for her, with the realization that she must have been so terribly let down, that this is the first thing she thinks. He doesn't try to argue, though. It's not something you can talk someone out of. But it's something you can show, and he resolves to try. To be her friend, if he can, despite the distance. It's not even that she's easy to talk to, and she is, but that feeling of connection between them feels somehow... inevitable.
Instead, he asks a question. It's not meant to change her mind or challenge what she's said; it's in earnest, and he asks her quietly: ]
Do you think that it can love?