[He lets out a louder sigh of relief than he would have liked when Siffrin wraps an arm further around him, the situation seemingly settled. Whew! No more secret pokes for the night. He was really worried they'd be too much of a gremlin to heed his warnings. Further gremlin-ing can happen tomorrow, after they've all had a good ten to twelve hours of dead sleep. If not for their current conversation he imagines he'd already be there, snoring away like usual, and as anticipation simmers he can feel the return of that exhaustion. It tugs at the corners of his eyelids. Blurs his vision. He relents, letting that fatigue pull them shut.]
Sif...
[His words are already somewhat sluggish, and the space he leaves between for an answer drags on a hair too long. But it's important. Something he feels he didn't say at the start of this particular tangent.]
Tell me more about the loops, sometime.
[It's unfair, phrasing it in a way that implies refusal isn't part of the equation. But they should talk about everything they went through. And if Siffrin doesn't have the strength to tell the whole party right away, then Isabeau selfishly hopes it'll be him they come to about it first. He'd love to be that for them, in a way that really matters for once.]
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Sif...
[His words are already somewhat sluggish, and the space he leaves between for an answer drags on a hair too long. But it's important. Something he feels he didn't say at the start of this particular tangent.]
Tell me more about the loops, sometime.
[It's unfair, phrasing it in a way that implies refusal isn't part of the equation. But they should talk about everything they went through. And if Siffrin doesn't have the strength to tell the whole party right away, then Isabeau selfishly hopes it'll be him they come to about it first. He'd love to be that for them, in a way that really matters for once.]