[Li's never had a friend to spend time with like this before. Yes, she and Li Yunru were able to have a few moments to themselves before they had to return from missions, but that was different. They could never fully relax around one another, never trust the other wasn't going to report back to their handlers that the conditioning was slipping. The most they ever managed was a little chitchat.
She's already connected more with a stranger in the course of a dream and a day than she connected to the person she was closest to in Beijing over the course of five years. The thought makes her a little sad, but also deeply grateful that she's here to have this opportunity, to be able to have a friend who isn't a hidden risk to her in some way.
Li doesn't know if she's a huggy person, or the kind of friend who talks for hours, or any number of things. Now, though, she'll have a chance to find those things out. Maybe that's what it means to be free - to be able to discover the things about herself she would have known, had she not been taken and made into a Creature.
Nothing he could've said could have made her happier than the implication there will be multiple days like this. Multiple times out, running around free and unfettered inbetween missions, no need to hide, no punishment if she slips up and acts a little too normal or laughs or - it's dizzying, the implications there. She beams at him. Her eyes flicker cyan again, red, cyan, before fading back to red and staying there. But it's a duller red, dark and something that could be mistaken for a color naturally occurring in humans.]
That sounds nice. If we need a break from serious planning, we can just come here.
[They don't have to be 'on' all the time. The thought has her a little more at ease here already. Breaks. What a concept!]
You said they had tea, right? Let's start with that.
[Please, please let there be white tea. White tea or old-fashioned fried dough or both, just something to make this perfect day even better, like something out of a dream.]
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She's already connected more with a stranger in the course of a dream and a day than she connected to the person she was closest to in Beijing over the course of five years. The thought makes her a little sad, but also deeply grateful that she's here to have this opportunity, to be able to have a friend who isn't a hidden risk to her in some way.
Li doesn't know if she's a huggy person, or the kind of friend who talks for hours, or any number of things. Now, though, she'll have a chance to find those things out. Maybe that's what it means to be free - to be able to discover the things about herself she would have known, had she not been taken and made into a Creature.
Nothing he could've said could have made her happier than the implication there will be multiple days like this. Multiple times out, running around free and unfettered inbetween missions, no need to hide, no punishment if she slips up and acts a little too normal or laughs or - it's dizzying, the implications there. She beams at him. Her eyes flicker cyan again, red, cyan, before fading back to red and staying there. But it's a duller red, dark and something that could be mistaken for a color naturally occurring in humans.]
That sounds nice. If we need a break from serious planning, we can just come here.
[They don't have to be 'on' all the time. The thought has her a little more at ease here already. Breaks. What a concept!]
You said they had tea, right? Let's start with that.
[Please, please let there be white tea. White tea or old-fashioned fried dough or both, just something to make this perfect day even better, like something out of a dream.]