[ she lightly massages his shoulder after he speaks, absently comforts. it's second nature, and now that they've passed into personal space, she doesn't linger on it. ] When you went to school to be a lawyer. [ she fills in the blanks soberly, because he's said he missed it: normalcy. (because maybe a small part of her wishes and plans for things like college, but she can't think about them now.) ] Why would you leave that?