They stay holding hands, as predicted, down to the ice cream shop and all the way up to the point when two hands become necessary to eat with, and then they simply stay close to each other as the evening winds its way into nighttime properly.
When they make it back to the steps of the townhouse, she doesn't ask him to walk her back to the Speaker camp, even though she wants to. He's still injured, and needs to rest, and so she leaves him at the door and makes her way back on her own.
He'd asked for two days, and that suits her just fine; she continues going to work, and earns her keep, and he'd been so generous with the supplies and the food that she doesn't feel altogether too guilty about separating out a few coins for herself from the income she brings back to the Speakers, and knows exactly where she intends to spend it that afternoon in town.
When their agreed-upon evening comes, she turns up right on schedule at the townhouse, with a bag tucked under one arm as she trots up and rings the bell.]
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They stay holding hands, as predicted, down to the ice cream shop and all the way up to the point when two hands become necessary to eat with, and then they simply stay close to each other as the evening winds its way into nighttime properly.
When they make it back to the steps of the townhouse, she doesn't ask him to walk her back to the Speaker camp, even though she wants to. He's still injured, and needs to rest, and so she leaves him at the door and makes her way back on her own.
He'd asked for two days, and that suits her just fine; she continues going to work, and earns her keep, and he'd been so generous with the supplies and the food that she doesn't feel altogether too guilty about separating out a few coins for herself from the income she brings back to the Speakers, and knows exactly where she intends to spend it that afternoon in town.
When their agreed-upon evening comes, she turns up right on schedule at the townhouse, with a bag tucked under one arm as she trots up and rings the bell.]