As he settled next to her she could tell her response hadn’t comforted him, but he didn’t press her to see what was wrong. She might have told him if he hadn’t moved the conversation along to ask what he could do for her, but was glad he hadn’t dwelled on what was troubling her. She had burdened him enough with her troubles, and her mother was her own problem to deal with. Adhira was exhausting to be around, and brought with her many memories that Cosette would have liked to forget, but it wasn’t anything she couldn’t handle on her own.
"If you could just stay with me for a while, that would be enough." She wanted to ask him to stay for the night, to pretend for just a little while that it was only the two of them again, but she knew there were others that depended on him too. It would have felt selfish to her to ask him to sleep out in the plains when she knew he had a comfortable place to sleep, and other purple hued girls waiting for him. "It’s strange how quickly everything seems to change. I wonder sometimes if I’ll ever be able to catch up." It wasn’t just how quickly their relationship had developed and shifted, or how quickly his group had grown. The world seemed to be spinning faster and faster each and every day and her pace was just too slow to be able to keep track of it all and it made her shrink away even more.
