Sandy kept a lot of secrets, even from Cal. She kept the things she read in peoples' minds a secret, didn't tell anyone the whispers she heard in the night when she dug the heels of her hands into her eyes wishing everything would just quiet down to a dull roar rather than the screaming chaos it usually was. She kept her own secrets, too, didn't want to share them because she was one of the strong ones. She protected them, when they'd been on the outside, like Cal, from threats. She'd alerted them in advance, scanned for danger.
She squeezed the back of his neck gently again and leaned back only to press a kiss to his temple before she wrapped her arms around him again and just held him. This was... this was good.
"Well, I'm no genius either," she pointed out. "It's okay, I know that."
She nudged him gently. "C'mon, let's go get something to eat?"