Or perhaps it's that you're not trying to marry me.
[She says it as blandly as he does, though there's buried in her tone that suggests this is almost a joke. Which, frankly, is a good sign; if she's teasing, even remotely, it means she's starting to shove that terror away.
(It's not gone. The grief, the horror, the anger, none of it is ever gone. But it's shoved away, locked away in a little box and sealed until her dying day).]
I admit, that rather fed into my dislike at the time.
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[She says it as blandly as he does, though there's buried in her tone that suggests this is almost a joke. Which, frankly, is a good sign; if she's teasing, even remotely, it means she's starting to shove that terror away.
(It's not gone. The grief, the horror, the anger, none of it is ever gone. But it's shoved away, locked away in a little box and sealed until her dying day).]
I admit, that rather fed into my dislike at the time.