[They've not been avoiding her, exactly. It is just...difficult to put into words, the things they have seen and felt since they last encountered her. "Encountered" - that is an unjustly harsh word for it. They encountered their Shadow.]
[They don't yet have a word for what that exchange was, and what it meant.]
[A small, slight shake of their head disrupts their veneer of apparent neutrality.]
no subject
[They don't yet have a word for what that exchange was, and what it meant.]
[A small, slight shake of their head disrupts their veneer of apparent neutrality.]
no
only resting