[It's a guess, but even then it's a small kindness on her part. There's something sharp and low digging from up and under her ribs as she watches him, the lines of her face severe and set as if she doesn't feel it. His apology, when it comes, is met with a long beat of silence-- and then she shifts even further from the edge of the bed, pacing out the six strides to where she finds the first available stool in medical. She hefts it up without pretense, not bothering to roll it over, and sets it back down with a crisp metallic thud of the wheels on the deck flooring. She sits down directly bedside.]
Let me get this straight-- you're apologizing to me because you went out to track down the things killing people on the ship. Against my advice.
[There's no give in her expression, her gaze on him steady.]
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[It's a guess, but even then it's a small kindness on her part. There's something sharp and low digging from up and under her ribs as she watches him, the lines of her face severe and set as if she doesn't feel it. His apology, when it comes, is met with a long beat of silence-- and then she shifts even further from the edge of the bed, pacing out the six strides to where she finds the first available stool in medical. She hefts it up without pretense, not bothering to roll it over, and sets it back down with a crisp metallic thud of the wheels on the deck flooring. She sits down directly bedside.]
Let me get this straight-- you're apologizing to me because you went out to track down the things killing people on the ship. Against my advice.
[There's no give in her expression, her gaze on him steady.]