Maybe it's a dream

As long as they were being honest with each other, she could at least try to tell him how she felt. "It's not like I have anyone lined up after you..." Wren began honestly, glancing down at the massive paw touching her own "even if I did, I... like you. Just you." And yet. It would really hurt to see Mercury with someone else, when he told her this. That he wanted her to wait, while he figured everything out. It would really smack her in the face if she ever saw him with another woman. Like she wasn't good enough.

Passed over again.

She forced herself to look at him. "It didn't excuse what I said to you" Wren admitted "even when I was rejected" But it hurt, to be here with him like this. He had gone out of his way to make her relax and feel special. Like he was giving her something precious and... Did friends do this? Basilisk hadn't done something like that, even if he gave her Euryale. She tried to push the hurt to the side. Maybe he'd never see her as anything else. "it's just confusing... Being here. Around you. No guy has ever given me the time of day."

She sucked in a sharp breath. "And maybe that's where I went wrong. I confused myself, trying to grasp something... that just wasn't there" Her eyes downcast "but you want to try, in time. I appreciate it, but I don't want to force you. I don't want you to feel like you should because I said something. I shouldn't have said anything. I fucked everything up between us, and I don't know how to fix it, Merc." She felt tears sting her eyes. Ashamed at herself, not at him. Annoyed and pissed at herself. Not at him.

"Speech"