... Thanks. [ That answer is about as dry as you can get, of course... but the sarcasm is undercut slightly as well by the feeling she gets looking into her brother's face... and seeing something worse than the relatively simple stress and lack of sleep plaguing her own appearance. He's sick, has been sick, but that doesn't make it any easier to see.
As a result, what might have been a digging retort back quickly dies before it leaves her mouth at all, and it's by silence that she pulls free the key strapped around her wrist to unlock the door she'd left not a minute beforehand.
There's a beat or two that passes after she steps into the noticeably warmer interior of her apartment, closing the door behind him, and then- ] Okay... after what? [ ... She's nothing if not persistent. ]
As a result, what might have been a digging retort back quickly dies before it leaves her mouth at all, and it's by silence that she pulls free the key strapped around her wrist to unlock the door she'd left not a minute beforehand.
There's a beat or two that passes after she steps into the noticeably warmer interior of her apartment, closing the door behind him, and then- ] Okay... after what? [ ... She's nothing if not persistent. ]
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