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[ She doesn't expect him to have any firm opinion about it immediately — in fact, she'd prefer he didn't, that he take time to truly weigh over his feelings on the truth of the matter before ultimately reaching a conclusion one way or another.

Beyond that, however, she's desperate not to do or say anything that could drive him to leave; whatever may have changed on her side, she doesn't want it to be strong enough to threaten the circumstances of their friendship, not with someone she holds so personally dear. ]

Yes. [ That she is confident in, but she's less prepared for him to slip from his seat and make his way to her, taking her hands in his own; she squeezes them reflexively, grateful for the tether he's established. ]

The alternative was... a more limited existence, and one that would not last should I ever return to my own world. [ It's as close as she's ever come to admitting another truth to him — the fact that she'd come here at the moment of her death, and has always known what would await her. But she's considered the possibility that returning different could change her fate, if she ever does return at all. ]