[She looks up and back at him, brows drawn in surprise and something akin to confusion.
Wrath.
She'd say that was impossible, but look who's talking to her at this very moment. Time means nothing. Sometimes people come back.]
Is he well?
[It's all she can manage to say in the moment. As calm an exterior as she's maintaining, there's a surge of emotion in her at this news. She sets her hands in her lap, fingers curling around one another and gripping tightly. She needs a moment to compose herself, prepare herself.
But it is the most important question.
A month. It probably shouldn't be surprising. It's been a long time he's been away, and he'd always been a skittish thing. Still, it stings a touch that it's taken him this long to return to the house. What has he been doing all this time?
She supposes the answers will be revealed soon enough, considering he's downstairs at the moment.]
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Wrath.
She'd say that was impossible, but look who's talking to her at this very moment. Time means nothing. Sometimes people come back.]
Is he well?
[It's all she can manage to say in the moment. As calm an exterior as she's maintaining, there's a surge of emotion in her at this news. She sets her hands in her lap, fingers curling around one another and gripping tightly. She needs a moment to compose herself, prepare herself.
But it is the most important question.
A month. It probably shouldn't be surprising. It's been a long time he's been away, and he'd always been a skittish thing. Still, it stings a touch that it's taken him this long to return to the house. What has he been doing all this time?
She supposes the answers will be revealed soon enough, considering he's downstairs at the moment.]