We. Swimming? In? Am I in? [Lucretia knows she sounds like a broken record, like a busted machine, like an idiot, just repeating what they're saying over and over. She doesn't have to imagine them kissing, because they just did. Right in front of her. And yes, Barry and Lup are completely into the whole "gross PDA" (as Taako calls it), but she'd expected them to be...embarrassed. Awkward.
They're not. They're treating this with a bold, casual honesty that she hadn't expected a bit. Lup just winked at her, and Barry might be blushing, but his hand is tangled with Lup's and his eyes are on Lucretia and Lucretia can barely breathe.]
Yes.
[This is after her year alone, after the judges left her and Fisher and the ship, running for months and months, all by themselves, after she spent hours talking aloud to the friends who weren't alive anymore, and if that year taught her anything, it's that she doesn't want to lose them. Not a single one of them. She doesn't want to lose Davenport's bossiness or Magnus's loudness or Merle's stupid arts and crafts or Taako's stuck-up prickly brand of affection. She doesn't want to lose the way Barry and Lup are looking at her right then, hopeful and shy and open.
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They're not. They're treating this with a bold, casual honesty that she hadn't expected a bit. Lup just winked at her, and Barry might be blushing, but his hand is tangled with Lup's and his eyes are on Lucretia and Lucretia can barely breathe.]
Yes.
[This is after her year alone, after the judges left her and Fisher and the ship, running for months and months, all by themselves, after she spent hours talking aloud to the friends who weren't alive anymore, and if that year taught her anything, it's that she doesn't want to lose them. Not a single one of them. She doesn't want to lose Davenport's bossiness or Magnus's loudness or Merle's stupid arts and crafts or Taako's stuck-up prickly brand of affection. She doesn't want to lose the way Barry and Lup are looking at her right then, hopeful and shy and open.
So she says it again.]
Yes. I am.