There was some overlap between the two statements, which made the conversation sound like something that had happened before and hadn't been resolved to anyone's satisfaction.
Diana's face went back to being amused.
"Well now... she thinks you're together," Diana said to Rex, as if she were giving him a summary of what she had just said.
"I'm aware of what she thinks," Rex said.
"He hasn't confirmed it," Lily said, sounding like someone who had been dealing with this for weeks. "But he doesn't deny it either, which is almost the same thing."
"It isn't," Rex said.
"It is," Lily said, sounding like someone who had already won the argument.
Diana laughed, which Rex had never heard from her before. It wasn't the polite laugh that was part of social navigation; it was the real one, quick and unguarded.
It changed her face enough that Rex noticed it.
