how to keep moving

Valentine slowly sank to his haunches before Rhythm, using the action as an excuse for silence as he considered what to say next. He wanted to be angry with her. Mostly for what her behavior was costing him – them as a couple – but partially, maybe though he would never admit it out loud, because he knew she had to be angry with him for what he had done to Rhyme and he wanted an excuse to be angry back at her.

Out of habit and unaware he was doing it, Valentine nodded in agreement. He followed the gesture up by saying, ”We are in agreement there which begs the question: where do we go from here?” Obviously this couldn't continue. A drunk and blind biddy wandering around Legion sounded like the set up of a dark-humored joke. It seemed entirely too plausible that he'd find her bottom up in a deep hole one day or mashed into the ground after a stampede. ”And what do you want, I suppose.”