Elias exhaled in relief: at least she hadn’t decided to argue with him about this. However grateful she seemed – she leant into him, and he let her, surprised if she was even steady on her feet in such a state – she was apologising, though, and he shook his head reproachfully at that, to say I won’t hear of it.
“Don’t be daft, friends can’t be impositions,” Elias said firmly, hoping his matter-of-fact tone might inject a little lightness into her mood. He squeezed her arm back to prove it; and besides, this wasn’t the first time he’d walked her home. He knew the route to her place in Pennyworth well enough, so he could lead them easily enough without thinking, and still be able to survey Irene sidelong with barely-concealed concern.
“How are you, though?” he asked her confidentially, his tone low and a crease between his brows. “Have you been sleeping?”
“Don’t be daft, friends can’t be impositions,” Elias said firmly, hoping his matter-of-fact tone might inject a little lightness into her mood. He squeezed her arm back to prove it; and besides, this wasn’t the first time he’d walked her home. He knew the route to her place in Pennyworth well enough, so he could lead them easily enough without thinking, and still be able to survey Irene sidelong with barely-concealed concern.
“How are you, though?” he asked her confidentially, his tone low and a crease between his brows. “Have you been sleeping?”
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