Zelda looked back up at Alfred's face, but could not find answers there.
He was going to leave her. She had to remember that he was going to leave her before he started traveling and broke her heart again, but she could already feel herself getting sucked in again. If Alfred didn't die, if she de-cursed the boat and the healers fixed him, then he was going to go to India and it was going to break her heart. She could see the hurt coming, but that didn't mean she could avoid it.
"I thought -" Zelda said. She sighed and picked at the ends of her sleeves with her fingers. "It doesn't matter what I thought." She didn't have to make him feel guilty for this. And she couldn't tell him how she felt - which was that she wanted so badly to be holding him right now, that he couldn't do this if he was going to go back to calling her Miss Fisk later, that she still didn't understand what went wrong between them.
He was going to leave her. She had to remember that he was going to leave her before he started traveling and broke her heart again, but she could already feel herself getting sucked in again. If Alfred didn't die, if she de-cursed the boat and the healers fixed him, then he was going to go to India and it was going to break her heart. She could see the hurt coming, but that didn't mean she could avoid it.
"I thought -" Zelda said. She sighed and picked at the ends of her sleeves with her fingers. "It doesn't matter what I thought." She didn't have to make him feel guilty for this. And she couldn't tell him how she felt - which was that she wanted so badly to be holding him right now, that he couldn't do this if he was going to go back to calling her Miss Fisk later, that she still didn't understand what went wrong between them.
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