Because it answers your question. You said he could be wrong, and then what? That answers your question.
( Her voice is oddly flat. Factual. Indeed, the spark Connor saw is decidedly absent. She doesn't intend to play at being a machine, but that's how her demeanour appears.
Perhaps it's simply so the calmness will counteract Connor's irrational insistences upon gambling and threads and the permanence of a gun shot.
Perhaps, like him, she seeks refuge in the mechanical.
Perhaps she knows that being able to restore her shouldn't be a deciding factor in her de facto spouse having a gun held to her head.
She looks away from him. This time it isn't his gaze that bothers her but the way her eyes squeeze tightly shut and her jaw locks. Not that it silences the noise. If anything, the efforts to find some equilibrium only make her feel more lost at sea. A tiny, fragile boat tossed around on unforgiving waves.
No. No. No
All she has to do is keep it together. Is it really that hard?
Yes. Yes, it is. And it's pathetic. Elijah would be so ashamed of her.
If he isn't already.
But still Chloe tries. She forces her eyes to open and meet's Connor's once again. Her attempts to maintain her usual poise make her look like she might sink into a heap any second. A puppet with her strings cut. )
...The fish. You were talking about the fish... I'd like to hear more about... dwarf gourami...
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( Her voice is oddly flat. Factual. Indeed, the spark Connor saw is decidedly absent. She doesn't intend to play at being a machine, but that's how her demeanour appears.
Perhaps it's simply so the calmness will counteract Connor's irrational insistences upon gambling and threads and the permanence of a gun shot.
Perhaps, like him, she seeks refuge in the mechanical.
Perhaps she knows that being able to restore her shouldn't be a deciding factor in her de facto spouse having a gun held to her head.
She looks away from him. This time it isn't his gaze that bothers her but the way her eyes squeeze tightly shut and her jaw locks. Not that it silences the noise. If anything, the efforts to find some equilibrium only make her feel more lost at sea. A tiny, fragile boat tossed around on unforgiving waves.
No. No. No
All she has to do is keep it together. Is it really that hard?
Yes. Yes, it is. And it's pathetic. Elijah would be so ashamed of her.
If he isn't already.
But still Chloe tries. She forces her eyes to open and meet's Connor's once again. Her attempts to maintain her usual poise make her look like she might sink into a heap any second. A puppet with her strings cut. )
...The fish. You were talking about the fish... I'd like to hear more about... dwarf gourami...