[She wanted to argue that point, wanted to insist that she knew he had to still be in there somewhere. She hadn’t dragged her friends through all that insanity only to have him come back to a life of nothing. He was so full of it once, burning with its intensity. There was a reason people likened him to a god. It was hard to be in the presence of Dimitri Belikov and not be in awe. To think that her Dimitri was gone forever was almost as bad as the idea of a world with no Dimitri in it at all. Almost.]
Says the man who threw me into a koi pond.
[There was however the smallest of smiles touching her lips, Rose not wanting there to be tension between them. There was so much they needed to work out and that couldn’t be done with them bickering constantly.]
Alright. [More certainly the second time.] Alright! We’re not going to get very far sitting here.
[Hoisting herself up then after a second, offering him her hand, even if there was something slightly comical about her helping him up. It was more of the thought that counted.]