[Eren might be ready to move on, and Aubrey wants to think she is, too… but it stings, a little, when he lets go. She feels exposed.]

[She watches him fix his hair like she watched him sleep. Her eyes still don’t leave him, even when he turns back.]

[“Don’t be stupid?” Oh, buddy. It’s too late for that.]

[Aubrey knows it, deeper than anything, when she replies (and not without some relief),] Guess we’ll find out.

[“We.”

[They’ll be staying close.]