She hummed lightly in response, head bobbing as she nodded in faux understanding. Needing only to be with something, someone, seemed like an alien idea. Ten years ago, through the eyes of a child, Seda would have known exactly what Jill meant. Now on top of being strange it seemed foolish. If that thing, person or otherwise, was all you needed then what did you do when they left you? How was a person meant to go on then, with everything they needed gone?
Her mouth dropped open, ready to ask Jill, ready to at least fight off the heavy silence that had settled over them, and then snapped shut suddenly. She tried once more, mouth barely open, before giving up and pressing her lips firmly together in a hard line. She didn’t have anything to say. She hadn’t prepared to actually talk to anyone when she had snuck out earlier. And yet the Gods above had left her somewhere between a horse, which was actually alright with Seda, and rider, which was much less acceptable. Then they trapped her there. Here. In choking silence and without an escape in sight.
Shifting, cloth rustling as she did so, Seda pointedly looking away from the human next to her and focused her gaze on the street instead. It was more crowded than the last time she had looked. People bustled to and fro, going about their business in a great rush as if the world might end otherwise. Her ears perked up as she was struck by an idea. She could say she had errands she needed to run and had to leave at once. That was a believable excuse, wasn’t it? Eyes darted to the side to look at Jill. It had to be believable. This was too awkward for the elf to endure any longer.
Fighting to shape the perfect apologetic gaze and smile she shuffled about to look at Jill only to cringe when all that escaped her was an uncomfortable laugh which sputtered out and died an embarrassing little death. That wasn’t what was supposed to happen. Biting her lip she buried her face in her hands, hiding the blush on her cheeks. Breathing in deeply she raised her head slightly, enough so that twin orbs could peek through a small crack in her fingers, and muttered a low apology. At least she had finally managed to say something.