I guess it's true that you should be careful what you wish for.
[She tries making a joke, does whatever she can to lighten the mood. He's just as close to panic as she is, and there's something about the way he looks at her sometimes that puts her on edge. It leaves her feeling like she has to try harder to make her presence easier on him. That she has to find a way to make herself seem like she doesn't take as much space.]
It feels like we're trapped in the Neverending Story sometimes. You saw that movie, right?
[The kid in that movie had loved monsters and fantasy too. It's probably ridiculous to compare the trauma they're dealing with together here to a kid's movie. But she's also not about to unload her mounting issues on him. Not when he has his own and is having trouble dealing with them.]
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[She tries making a joke, does whatever she can to lighten the mood. He's just as close to panic as she is, and there's something about the way he looks at her sometimes that puts her on edge. It leaves her feeling like she has to try harder to make her presence easier on him. That she has to find a way to make herself seem like she doesn't take as much space.]
It feels like we're trapped in the Neverending Story sometimes. You saw that movie, right?
[The kid in that movie had loved monsters and fantasy too. It's probably ridiculous to compare the trauma they're dealing with together here to a kid's movie. But she's also not about to unload her mounting issues on him. Not when he has his own and is having trouble dealing with them.]