"No, I, um..." She gives him her hand, because she has no reason not to trust him. "I had it when I woke up."
She was told, before the power that be tried to drown her inside an elevator, that they were playing some sort of Nonary Game (nonary, base sets of nine, her brain supplies uselessly, as if to explain the giant door with a 9 on it - she realizes at this moment how glad she is that she didn't lose her memory of language along with who she is) and that the stakes were death. But she didn't hear that it was a zero-sum game, so there's no reason to believe that this young guy looking at her hand is going to stab her in the back - right?
That thought starts to lurk in Piper's brain, and she very nearly pulls her hand away, but tries to play it calm instead. If he's just a nice person, she isn't at risk. If he's got her number, then looking scared and confused and weak is already a strike against her. She learned that somewhere, she can't remember where.
"Where'd you get the hat? I used to have a hat like that that I wore in college, you know, before my flower child phase..."
aw yeah switching away from brackets
She was told, before the power that be tried to drown her inside an elevator, that they were playing some sort of Nonary Game (nonary, base sets of nine, her brain supplies uselessly, as if to explain the giant door with a 9 on it - she realizes at this moment how glad she is that she didn't lose her memory of language along with who she is) and that the stakes were death. But she didn't hear that it was a zero-sum game, so there's no reason to believe that this young guy looking at her hand is going to stab her in the back - right?
That thought starts to lurk in Piper's brain, and she very nearly pulls her hand away, but tries to play it calm instead. If he's just a nice person, she isn't at risk. If he's got her number, then looking scared and confused and weak is already a strike against her. She learned that somewhere, she can't remember where.
"Where'd you get the hat? I used to have a hat like that that I wore in college, you know, before my flower child phase..."