[She's fine with him sitting next to her, well, fine enough. Any time that America is looking less cocky she finds him a bit more tolerable-- which is unfortunate that it's so short-lived.
Her attention goes from politely ignoring his moment of pouting to shooting him a blank look, obviously unsatisfied by the turn in conversation]
That would be distracting you from 'being the hero'. Yes? Yes. --And gathering more field notes to figure a way for us to be back home.
[stiffly:] I have been lonely in the past-- I can handle being lonely now. [Plus she's fairly sure his request is purely selfish and based on hormones rather than companionship. Hey. She COULD be smacking you right now, but she's just going to give you every other brand of denial first this time. Good deal.]
...
Her attention goes from politely ignoring his moment of pouting to shooting him a blank look, obviously unsatisfied by the turn in conversation]
That would be distracting you from 'being the hero'. Yes? Yes.
--And gathering more field notes to figure a way for us to be back home.
[stiffly:] I have been lonely in the past-- I can handle being lonely now. [Plus she's fairly sure his request is purely selfish and based on hormones rather than companionship. Hey. She COULD be smacking you right now, but she's just going to give you every other brand of denial first this time. Good deal.]
...stop flexing.