When the world stops around her, Alex's heart races. Everything that she'd seen in the past three years, everything that had scared her and kept her up at night, every time she'd woken up screaming or crying seems like nothing in comparison to this sudden stoppage of the world. Alex looks, her gaze moving around the club and everyone inside of it, including Thomas Warren is still as if someone has just pressed pause on a DVD. For a moment, Alex just wonders if Amalia is okay, but she can't dwell on fear for her friend, not when fear is right here and talking about there being something about Alex herself.
She just looks confused by both the Goddess and Richard staring at her like that, and Alex's colors because it's almost like she's got something on her face. "I'm just me." The words are quick and a little defensive in the same surprised way that happened after Turkey when Richard had said that she was at the center of things with him. Honestly, it makes Alex wonder if this was what he meant and he didn't even know it.
Her mouth opens and closes and for a moment when they're both silent Alex feels like she's alone in a world that's just holding it's breath and waiting for an answer. Maybe more than one answer, both Richard's and the one that Alex is choosing. The rawness of his saying her name echoes in her head for a moment, and she doesn't know what to say.
Alex knows what he wants to say, it's evident in her eyes, in the way that her fingers flex over Richard's when she addresses Tiamat. "What happens to the world. If... If I say yes?"
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She just looks confused by both the Goddess and Richard staring at her like that, and Alex's colors because it's almost like she's got something on her face. "I'm just me." The words are quick and a little defensive in the same surprised way that happened after Turkey when Richard had said that she was at the center of things with him. Honestly, it makes Alex wonder if this was what he meant and he didn't even know it.
Her mouth opens and closes and for a moment when they're both silent Alex feels like she's alone in a world that's just holding it's breath and waiting for an answer. Maybe more than one answer, both Richard's and the one that Alex is choosing. The rawness of his saying her name echoes in her head for a moment, and she doesn't know what to say.
Alex knows what he wants to say, it's evident in her eyes, in the way that her fingers flex over Richard's when she addresses Tiamat. "What happens to the world. If... If I say yes?"