You just come right out and say it, don't you? I knew there was a reason I liked you so much.
( She delivers this with a smile, one that's a bit smaller than what she had to show him before, but it's warmer somehow, shades more self-aware and well-meant. Angela keeps it while she, careful as she can, parses what he's telling her. This gives her a rather amicable cast, her confusion a genuinely touched air, and it's almost like this is a fine time to be considering such things.
Despite the fact that she's still, quite literally, Fade touched. With a tone that's not unkindly: ) ...I'm flattered, really, but ( and here she sighs softly, dips her head slightly, a display of regret at her actions ) I think I may have deceived you. Perhaps through omission, but it amounts to the same thing. For a human woman, I'm much older than someone who's the last of his kind should offer these kinds of things to. My body may be young for my age, but--
Ah, well. ( A laugh, again, as she shakes her head and settles her hands into her lap. ) I don't think I need to explain the basics to someone so old. ( Her pupils are still a bit too wide as she says, with a voice that's quieter than before, even if it's lined with veins of amused self-deprecation and brimming with a knowing resignation to inexorable facts: ) I've past my use-by date. I wouldn't want to--gamble.
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( She delivers this with a smile, one that's a bit smaller than what she had to show him before, but it's warmer somehow, shades more self-aware and well-meant. Angela keeps it while she, careful as she can, parses what he's telling her. This gives her a rather amicable cast, her confusion a genuinely touched air, and it's almost like this is a fine time to be considering such things.
Despite the fact that she's still, quite literally, Fade touched. With a tone that's not unkindly: ) ...I'm flattered, really, but ( and here she sighs softly, dips her head slightly, a display of regret at her actions ) I think I may have deceived you. Perhaps through omission, but it amounts to the same thing. For a human woman, I'm much older than someone who's the last of his kind should offer these kinds of things to. My body may be young for my age, but--
Ah, well. ( A laugh, again, as she shakes her head and settles her hands into her lap. ) I don't think I need to explain the basics to someone so old. ( Her pupils are still a bit too wide as she says, with a voice that's quieter than before, even if it's lined with veins of amused self-deprecation and brimming with a knowing resignation to inexorable facts: ) I've past my use-by date. I wouldn't want to--gamble.