It was not that Diana didn’t think the world of Kal. She did, and she had taken his word that they would know each other later. His familiarity did not seem contrived, and he had been a steadfast friend and, as they continually joked, the best neighbor. But it had stopped there, and was it any wonder? After all, hadn’t Diana wandered into the lobby and stopped dead in her tracks when she’d seen Thor? At the time, she’d figured she’d stopped because there had been a person... but that hadn’t happened again, in the entire month she’d been here. And she had certainly not kissed anyone else, nor held their hand. Diana should have known that these things needed to be talked about, and yet somehow she feared if she did, they would end. And Diana couldn’t bear it, not when she’d only just gotten him back.
Thor laced their fingers and she squeezed his hand, gently. She couldn’t help the smile that put on her face, just the simple touch of his hand in hers. “They have other skates, too. Ones that are closer to the ice kind. Those ones have four wheels as well, but in a line. They call them roller blades, or in-line skates if they’re fussy.” Diana shrugged, figuring that if Thor had never been skating before, he might not know the difference.
Diana did not like roller blades, for all they were built for more speed, but then, Diana’s own abilities lended themselves just fine to being on wheels, and faster skates would have changed nothing. “It is easier skating with someone than I would’ve thought,” she continued, meaning their linked hands and having to keep their feet out of each other’s way. “But the humans seem to like it. Sometimes one of them will skate backward, which is quite difficult.” For the humans, obviously. And Diana did not share that there was usually a couples’ skate option, nor how many times she’d sat on the sidelines, annoyed at her own solitude.
Not that she’d done anything about it, because it wasn’t as if Diana hadn’t been asked. “I used to be able to, but I haven’t tried in a very long time.” Nor did she now, not wanting the extra worry of turning backward as well.