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Dreamer is cleaning bloodstains out of Shay's boat fort.

It's taking a lot longer than she thought.

Certainly long enough that she forgot why she started in the first place, but hey. Not like she has anything better to do.

Slosh. Clank. Scrubscrubscrub. Slosh.

This is oddly restful.

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"Take as long as you need, honey. I'm not goin' anywhere."

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Eden knows she's used to living in her own head. She doesn't have a lot of reference points when it comes to other people.

Are other people freaking out about this? All she knows is her own reaction - and Anna's, now. The wishing, the longing. The pain of losing someone close. If she keeps catagorizing it, she can define it, trap these feelings in words so at least when they bother her they'll know what they are.

(It's all useless. It all means nothing.)

"Thanks," she repeats softly, leaning into Anna. "For all this. I-- I don't like being this way."

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"Y'welcome, cherie."

Anna snugs her arms around Eden's waist, gentle and comforting.

"Welcome," she repeats. She's saying that a lot lately - and in two languages, no less.

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Eden falls silent, not wanting to think or speak or do much of anything despite the feeling that she should be doing all three. She just looks around the captain's bedroom, waiting until she feels like she can face the world again.

After a moment, she moves her arm to lightly rest around Anna's own waist.

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Dreamer, too, stays silent.

She meant it when she said she wasn't going anywhere.

And let's just try to ignore how foolishly delighted it makes her that Eden's sort of hugging her back.