MAEA
His answer pleased her, there was no doubt about that. The little smile grew wider, more sure even as the glint in his eyes returned. She knew it for what it was now; a mere distraction, meant to keep people from looking too deeply. What she'd seen here was no doubt rare and far more worthy of guarding as secret than whatever he'd had in mind.
Taking her hand back, she folded it along with the other across the chest - an awkward affair in the swift water, and she soon had to extend them to keep herself afloat - and raised a brow at him when he asked if she would remain at the tavern.
"I was certainly not planning on leaving, not for a good while," she countered. "Why, are you planning on being difficult?"
It was only half jest; she'd not rejected him outright, but thought her comments ought to have made her point clear all the same. Maea gave him a searching look, a quiet question in her gaze; would he let this unfinished game end here? Make it a secret for only the river to know, and forget about it?
Taking her hand back, she folded it along with the other across the chest - an awkward affair in the swift water, and she soon had to extend them to keep herself afloat - and raised a brow at him when he asked if she would remain at the tavern.
"I was certainly not planning on leaving, not for a good while," she countered. "Why, are you planning on being difficult?"
It was only half jest; she'd not rejected him outright, but thought her comments ought to have made her point clear all the same. Maea gave him a searching look, a quiet question in her gaze; would he let this unfinished game end here? Make it a secret for only the river to know, and forget about it?
