"Aren't we all?" she asked incredulously, not wasting a beat to think over any of it. A distant voice in the back of her mind suggested she was being hasty and ridiculous but she didn't have the patience or inhibitions to reign in just then. Not when indulging frustration felt so right.
His voice seemed earnest but wherever she was in her oscillations she hadn't quite caught his expression. "Then what - ?" she began and planted her feet to face him squarely but after so many turns the room seemed to have other ideas and continued to spin around her. She swayed where she stood before moving to drop ungracefully into the nearest seat.
With a grumble of frustration she sat there, waiting for the world around her to right itself until she noticed her ash-covered gloves laying piteously in her lap. She wrinkled her nose and began to yank them off, plucking at the fingers like each had individually offended her.
"You never asked."
His voice seemed earnest but wherever she was in her oscillations she hadn't quite caught his expression. "Then what - ?" she began and planted her feet to face him squarely but after so many turns the room seemed to have other ideas and continued to spin around her. She swayed where she stood before moving to drop ungracefully into the nearest seat.
With a grumble of frustration she sat there, waiting for the world around her to right itself until she noticed her ash-covered gloves laying piteously in her lap. She wrinkled her nose and began to yank them off, plucking at the fingers like each had individually offended her.
"You never asked."