An Apple a Day

Amalia I took the stars from our eyes and I made a map He arrived? The confusion is obvious on Amalia's face; still thinking of her Natural acquaintance, she struggles desperately to figure out what is going on. It isn't until he gets to the part where they lived together (and the implications therein) that a lightbulb goes off in the Shield's head: this is a different Nate. It's a good thing that she's caught in her own thoughts, because it distracts her from the full implication of Sam's next set of statements. To have convinced an Outlander - an Accepted - to become Ascended just so he could have a boyfriend... later Amalia will process through this and her opinion of Nate will change. For now, though, Sam is fortunate, as she rejoins the conversation fully at the point where the other man's infidelity is revealed. Pressing into an apple to test its ripeness, Amalia shakes her head with an indignant snort. Of course she hasn't been bitten, but she does know what it's meant to feel like. "So he... started biting other people? Which is basically like sex with them?" And I knew that somehow I could find my way back