“...ouais,” after a moment, a slow exhale through her nose that isn't quite a sigh, “yes. In that case—”
she doesn't have to do this, and they're talking about him, and
“—there are things I would like to say, too.” Gwenaëlle is less under any illusion that Stephen views her as particularly flawless or heroic, but he has seen ... a better, maybe the best, version of who she is. She knows the difficult path to where they're standing more intimately than she suspects it entirely appears, sometimes, as ready as he often is to credit her with the best of his pivots in Riftwatch.
And, yes, sure, but.
“But I talk all the time,” she adds, “so you're going first.”
no subject
she doesn't have to do this, and they're talking about him, and
“—there are things I would like to say, too.” Gwenaëlle is less under any illusion that Stephen views her as particularly flawless or heroic, but he has seen ... a better, maybe the best, version of who she is. She knows the difficult path to where they're standing more intimately than she suspects it entirely appears, sometimes, as ready as he often is to credit her with the best of his pivots in Riftwatch.
And, yes, sure, but.
“But I talk all the time,” she adds, “so you're going first.”
So there.