[travis swallows down the questions that immediately jump to leave his mouth. the furrowing of his brow and slight narrowing of his eyes gives away enough already. keep him, did she ever want to keep him? maybe dead and gutted, or with her teeth sharp in his lip. does all she ever want to do is draw blood? but her tone tells him that she yearns for some kind of normalcy. that she's trying to be normal with him.
he has a hard time burying his curiosity. staring at her, eyes searching her face for an answer that he isn't sure that she'll give him. shauna is secretive and cunning, smart in ways that he won't ever be. all of them are filled to the brim with complexities, shaped by the trauma they share. are they ever going to reach normal, travis thinks, or will normal feel so far away and foreign that they won't be able to grasp it?
that could be why standing naked and breathless and flushed in a forest doesn't feel as strange as it should.]
What? Keep me? [still cautious, half wondering if asking is even worth it, half trying to make a joke out of it.] I was joking, Shauna. Obviously you can't keep me here.
[he tries to smile. smiling will help, won't it? it's partial, a lopsided attempt to lighten the mood.]
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he has a hard time burying his curiosity. staring at her, eyes searching her face for an answer that he isn't sure that she'll give him. shauna is secretive and cunning, smart in ways that he won't ever be. all of them are filled to the brim with complexities, shaped by the trauma they share. are they ever going to reach normal, travis thinks, or will normal feel so far away and foreign that they won't be able to grasp it?
that could be why standing naked and breathless and flushed in a forest doesn't feel as strange as it should.]
What? Keep me? [still cautious, half wondering if asking is even worth it, half trying to make a joke out of it.] I was joking, Shauna. Obviously you can't keep me here.
[he tries to smile. smiling will help, won't it? it's partial, a lopsided attempt to lighten the mood.]