She did not pull away.
This was the first thing she noted, in the part of her mind that kept noting things regardless of circumstances.... the part that had kept running commentary through three years of a story trying to happen around her, through drainage reports and supply negotiations and the slow, methodical work of becoming someone other than the villain the game had written.
That part of her mind noted: she was not pulling away.
The rest of her was not thinking at all.
