Had she pushed too far, too fast? The thing was, Lottie got the impression that Ninkasi was used to sort of breezing through things. Not that she hadn't had difficult things to handle before, but she seemed like the sort that just walked in with confidence. Maybe that was what was so hard for the Sumerian: this wasn't something she was able to brazen through. Hmmm.
Or maybe it was that she'd not pushed hard enough. Maybe she'd been too gentle and left room for Ninkasi to backtrack in the conversation. It sounded like the other advice she'd been given thus far consisted mostly of "have sex" along with Thor's "don't be stupid." Nothing really concrete that she could plant her feet against to stand firm.
So.
What to do? What to say?
Lottie bit her lip. "Okay. Well." Oh hell, she was going for it. "Do you want to wait that long again to take the next step? Do you want to stay in this place that you're in that long again? Because there's an easy way to move forward. Tell him."