[Although — the way he takes hold of her so effortlessly, like he's entitled to do it, makes a thread of memory stir inside her. It's hard to say whether it's a positive feeling or a negative one, but it's — it's something. It's something that connects, or at least has the potential to. She has no particularly strong feelings about him either way, but she does have opinions about the person he reminds her of.
And maybe...
Maybe that will help. Maybe that memory, that association, will be the bridge needed to create the foundation of a connection here. Maybe projection is the first step to crossing the chasm at all.]
Synchrony won't begin if I'm nothing to you.
[And yet she lets him draw her in, thinking idly of spiders and flies.]
no subject
[Although — the way he takes hold of her so effortlessly, like he's entitled to do it, makes a thread of memory stir inside her. It's hard to say whether it's a positive feeling or a negative one, but it's — it's something. It's something that connects, or at least has the potential to. She has no particularly strong feelings about him either way, but she does have opinions about the person he reminds her of.
And maybe...
Maybe that will help. Maybe that memory, that association, will be the bridge needed to create the foundation of a connection here. Maybe projection is the first step to crossing the chasm at all.]
Synchrony won't begin if I'm nothing to you.
[And yet she lets him draw her in, thinking idly of spiders and flies.]
You have to want something.