With her incomprehensible apology delivered Seda went back to hiding her face in her hands. She was at the point where she was seriously contemplating curling into a ball and rolling away to freedom. It wasn’t the best plan she had ever made but Seda thought it had potential.
Desperation for space, for quiet safe space, had long since set in and it had the already jumpy girl on edge. This whole situation had grown out of control and Seda wasn’t ready to handle it. Not yet. A few months ago the elf could have talked to Jill and her whole family had the human dragged them along with an easy grin and a mouth full of lies but now… Now talking to one simple human seemed impossible. This should not be so nerve wracking and the fact that it was only upset the girl more.
A sudden nudge at her shoulder had Seda reeling back, one hand flying to her waist to grasp the handle of the dagger secured there. She froze mid-draw, eyes going wide and face pale, as she stared at Jill in shock. Then, lips pursed, her eyes narrowed into a half-hearted glare. Looking at the apple suspiciously for a moment she tentatively reached out to take it. Once it was securely in her grasp she pulled her arm back as if burned while her other hand finally unsheathed her dagger, bringing the blade up to slice at the soft flesh of the apple.
The tense set of her shoulders started to relax as all of her attention became focused on cutting the apple into even pieces. Even the silence which only moments before had been clawing uncomfortably at her was forgotten. Seda had something to do, a small goal as it was, and that had suddenly made everything manageable again.