[She made it sound so easy. It sounded so god-damned easy for her to just deal with feelings. Parsee didn't even know if she had feelings, if she was just jealous because she had so few friends and now this woman refused to stop being close to her. Forgave her for anything, or if she wished... well, if that was what it is, what would she have wished?

Her face was beet red. Her fingers clenched a little.]

A step at a time... and ... if that's what it turns out to be... you'll just have to decide how you feel about that in turn right?

[Because that's how this sort of thing worked, wasn't it? And now she was being unfair and implanting the thought in Rinoa's head. What if!]