When she glances up, she finds him as steady and calm as usual. If the story has shaken him, it's nowhere visible in his expression, not quite smiling but also quietly warm, like a banked fire.
As she glances back down, he says, "I'm glad, then. And if you ever wish to speak of it again or if questions occur to you later, you needn't think of this as the only time we will ever discuss the topic. I can think of pleasanter ones, perhaps, but I also think ... if I were in your place, in a world strange to me, I would also wish to know more of it. Of the lives of people around me. You've only ever asked with kindness."
But at the same time, maybe they've both gone through enough of his past for one night, as the unspoken coda to his offer suggests.
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As she glances back down, he says, "I'm glad, then. And if you ever wish to speak of it again or if questions occur to you later, you needn't think of this as the only time we will ever discuss the topic. I can think of pleasanter ones, perhaps, but I also think ... if I were in your place, in a world strange to me, I would also wish to know more of it. Of the lives of people around me. You've only ever asked with kindness."
But at the same time, maybe they've both gone through enough of his past for one night, as the unspoken coda to his offer suggests.