11-25-2017, 09:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2017, 09:49 PM by Kenna.
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Though the senior Travers wouldn't likely perceive this, the air in Margot's bedroom suddenly pulled almost physically tighter, like a bow string being pulled back and held taut. Perhaps others in the house would feel the shift and dismiss it on craftwork. It didn't matter, she wasn't answering knocks on doors at this moment anyways.
She didn't interrupt when he said his piece, though some of what he said caused her pause. She listened and sat with an elbow on her desk to help cradle her head, staring down at the words she'd written just a dozen minutes earlier on the page and hardly seeing them at all. Her head was still pinging back and forth between thoughts and questions about how much he knew and what subject this conversation was going to lead them to-- she felt like there had to be a point, a reason, a catalyst that caused him to finally reach out after all this time, and her inability to quite lay a finger on that was causing her mind to spin out while trying to solve for the equation.
"Okay...," she said, dragging the word out in a way that suggested mild disbelief, or if not even necessarily disbelief then at least some amount of suspicion.
"But why now? And not, say, ten or fifteen years ago?"
She didn't necessarily intend for the question to smack of accusation, but it was a hard thing to ask without it coming across that way in general.
She didn't interrupt when he said his piece, though some of what he said caused her pause. She listened and sat with an elbow on her desk to help cradle her head, staring down at the words she'd written just a dozen minutes earlier on the page and hardly seeing them at all. Her head was still pinging back and forth between thoughts and questions about how much he knew and what subject this conversation was going to lead them to-- she felt like there had to be a point, a reason, a catalyst that caused him to finally reach out after all this time, and her inability to quite lay a finger on that was causing her mind to spin out while trying to solve for the equation.
"Okay...," she said, dragging the word out in a way that suggested mild disbelief, or if not even necessarily disbelief then at least some amount of suspicion.
"But why now? And not, say, ten or fifteen years ago?"
She didn't necessarily intend for the question to smack of accusation, but it was a hard thing to ask without it coming across that way in general.