Sloane was beaming at Lester's appreciation of her gains. She often felt like she  was still floundering and she wanted to be good at something again. That he could see she was enjoying herself and doing well with this meant a lot. What she hoped he couldn't see in the dim light was the blush on her cheeks. Her life was not settled yet, but it was better than it had been. She was making progress. This was good for her, even if everybody had worried about it when she'd said she wanted to go back to the zoo.

"We should get back, there's lots of other fun things to see." She was going to get sentimental and mushy if they sat there like this much longer and she was trying very hard not to put too much pressure on Lester anymore. He'd done enough, continued to do a lot for her without much effort, but she didn't want him to feel like he had to. Taking advantage of his friendship was not something she ever wanted to do for an extended period of time and now that she was sort of on her own two feet again, she wanted to keep it that way.