It's a bit more difficult to avoid someone should things go wrong, though. I can't very well leave the village. It's not the best way to handle the situation but it's the...cleanest. [Coldest as well, that sudden isolation. Self induced and she'd been fine with it more or less. She'd had work. That wasn't the case here, people would ask questions, would wonder what happened- it had been bad enough when all she had to worry about was Remy and Henri but here. Downsides to a larger network of friends and family, she supposes.

The blush made her snort a laugh, shake off what she'd been thinking. That, yes, that was something of a trainwreck.] The Malnosso made me love Stark. They did not make me want to attempt a double date. That was my own strange attempt at normalcy, which I've all but abandoned here.

...Small things first, yes? Just. Ways of letting him know I care without pushing or stating it outright.