You know, I believe I'm beginning to tire of the word.
[ badass. it keeps cropping up. and perhaps she should feel flattered -- but mostly she still feels flummoxed. it's a strange position to be in, still, to have gone from barely any recognition back home to an surfeit of admiration here. and most of it feels undeserved. ]
Besides, I don't know a Miss Croft. You'll have to explain yourself a bit more.
[ but she is glad to see him -- and him out of his suit -- and it feels like an old habit when she grips him by his arm and leans upward to put a friendly little kiss on his cheek. it's the sort of gesture that would have been perfectly ordinary between howard and herself back home. ]
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[ badass. it keeps cropping up. and perhaps she should feel flattered -- but mostly she still feels flummoxed. it's a strange position to be in, still, to have gone from barely any recognition back home to an surfeit of admiration here. and most of it feels undeserved. ]
Besides, I don't know a Miss Croft. You'll have to explain yourself a bit more.
[ but she is glad to see him -- and him out of his suit -- and it feels like an old habit when she grips him by his arm and leans upward to put a friendly little kiss on his cheek. it's the sort of gesture that would have been perfectly ordinary between howard and herself back home. ]