[ she's almost ready to throw in the towel and just say forget it, seeming to get the idea from his hesitation that he's not interested and she's wasting her time — but it's the fact that he says uh, which, for a master of communication, isn't something she's used to hearing him say, that has her staring at him expectantly, brows slightly furrowed as she isn't quite sure what she expects him to say next. not interested or straight up no are at the top of her list. ]
[ he surprises her with i can't after an impossibly long pause, leaving her heart beating slightly harder than it had been earlier. he almost looks guilty about turning her down, which probably isn't the case, but he's definitely acting weird, like he actually wants to let her down easy instead of laughing as he lets her down the hard way. ]
[ she tilts her head, as if she hadn't quite heard him right. ] Wait. You can't? [ she's not even sure she knows what that means. what's more important than fighting the unseelie who will just destroy all of them if they don't do something to stop them? ] Why not? [ she doesn't mean to sound so entitled, but she really had been banking on him saying yes and she's still not totally used to not getting her way when it comes to things like this; or, even if he had said no, she expected it to be because he just didn't want to join her team, not because of ... something else entirely. ]
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[ he surprises her with i can't after an impossibly long pause, leaving her heart beating slightly harder than it had been earlier. he almost looks guilty about turning her down, which probably isn't the case, but he's definitely acting weird, like he actually wants to let her down easy instead of laughing as he lets her down the hard way. ]
[ she tilts her head, as if she hadn't quite heard him right. ] Wait. You can't? [ she's not even sure she knows what that means. what's more important than fighting the unseelie who will just destroy all of them if they don't do something to stop them? ] Why not? [ she doesn't mean to sound so entitled, but she really had been banking on him saying yes and she's still not totally used to not getting her way when it comes to things like this; or, even if he had said no, she expected it to be because he just didn't want to join her team, not because of ... something else entirely. ]