"You really must think I'm a fool, then," she replies in a soft, dismissive tone. "Fawn over me? Please, I'll be lucky if you don't find a reason to hold that against me, too."
She's going to start walking. Given the lack of scenery, there's no real telling if this is 'forward', or if there is a 'forward'. But if she can try to physically move past this, maybe the conversation will move as well.
"If you're going to accuse me of imposing anything, then at least get the details right. Because I don't know how long you plan on sleeping, Darin -- a week? A year, or maybe 10,000 years? -- but before you go learning this lesson the hard way, let me tell you that you won't gain anything from it."
"You'll have to stand and fight eventually, so you may as well do it while the people you care about are still alive, and you're not filling the void with a handful of mice."
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She's going to start walking. Given the lack of scenery, there's no real telling if this is 'forward', or if there is a 'forward'. But if she can try to physically move past this, maybe the conversation will move as well.
"If you're going to accuse me of imposing anything, then at least get the details right. Because I don't know how long you plan on sleeping, Darin -- a week? A year, or maybe 10,000 years? -- but before you go learning this lesson the hard way, let me tell you that you won't gain anything from it."
"You'll have to stand and fight eventually, so you may as well do it while the people you care about are still alive, and you're not filling the void with a handful of mice."
No offense to the space mice, of course.