Re: [Diner: Aleksi, Hannah, Si]
Hannah watched the sugar briefly. She couldn't smell it, but she could see Si's fingers moving, and she let him be. Instead, she explained messily, but hoping the sentiment came across clearly as it tumbled from her lips and onto the space between them. Then, the coffee came and was refilled, and the food came almost immediately on the tail of Rabbit's question and Si's opinion. Hannah busied herself a moment with pouring syrup on pancakes and bacon, drowning them, and then she dipped her finger in the sticky-sweet stuff and sucked it off her fingertips without any concern for social niceties or how not-polite it was to eat with her fingers.
"I know what she's told me," she said after picking up a piece of bacon and dipping the edge in syrup. "I know they had a baby together, and I know he's paying for her hospital stay," and she thought she was effectively hiding the 'rehab' angle, but she did notice the lingering sadness on Rabbit's face, and she reached across and squeezed his hand with sticky fingers. "I'm sorry. I know you miss your family," she said, understanding in a way that was only possible after a shared dream. "I can talk to him on the forums, but is it too intrusive?" And the question was open to both of them.