She hesitates a moment before answering the smile. "If I were you," she says, her voice a little lower now, "I would hold off calling me love. There are those here who might take it amiss, and it is not only the hurt we did each other I would leave in the past."
She knows that wasn't how he meant it - but she knows, too, that if questions are raised by how he speaks, she will feel obliged to answer them honestly. And she isn't at all sure she can stomach hurting Faramir that way, for all her intentions of being honest with him.
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Did you plurk me about this? I feel like you did, but I can't find it.
Date: 2016-02-19 10:34 pm (UTC)She knows that wasn't how he meant it - but she knows, too, that if questions are raised by how he speaks, she will feel obliged to answer them honestly. And she isn't at all sure she can stomach hurting Faramir that way, for all her intentions of being honest with him.