"I hope so too," she said, somewhat encouraged by his smile, and finding herself smiling back at him despite all the questions that rolled through her still. It wasn't within Ruby to linger over things that were dark or haunting, as those dreams certainly were. If there was a chance to speak of something more pleasant, she would surely take it.
"Men trouble," she said. "Forgive me for treating you like an advice column, but since you're my favorite friend presumably with a penis in attendance, I figured you'd be the best to ask." She smiled at him, moving her hands to the table to get them free from her lap and concentrating on smoothing her fingers along the smooth finery of it, versus fidgeting as they had been. Speaking so plainly with Loki about something so private was going to perhaps be a little embarrassing to start, but it helped that she'd gotten the worst off of her chest first.
"I was wondering if you might have any insight as to why someone who appears to be attracted to me in every other second of the day freezes up and shuts down when I make advances. Not the second advances are made, mind you, so I know that it's not that I make him uncomfortable or that he doesn't, you know, want to. He lets it go on for a bit, then sends me on my way. I don't have a whole lot of experience with men, but from what I know that sort of behavior isn't really normal."
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Date: 2014-04-15 07:50 am (UTC)"Men trouble," she said. "Forgive me for treating you like an advice column, but since you're my favorite friend presumably with a penis in attendance, I figured you'd be the best to ask." She smiled at him, moving her hands to the table to get them free from her lap and concentrating on smoothing her fingers along the smooth finery of it, versus fidgeting as they had been. Speaking so plainly with Loki about something so private was going to perhaps be a little embarrassing to start, but it helped that she'd gotten the worst off of her chest first.
"I was wondering if you might have any insight as to why someone who appears to be attracted to me in every other second of the day freezes up and shuts down when I make advances. Not the second advances are made, mind you, so I know that it's not that I make him uncomfortable or that he doesn't, you know, want to. He lets it go on for a bit, then sends me on my way. I don't have a whole lot of experience with men, but from what I know that sort of behavior isn't really normal."