The way she was looking at Lyra gave her more tingles, it was a devoted kind of attention that people didn’t usually show, especially strangers. Unless they were on a date, maybe? But guys didn’t, or at least no guy had ever looked at Lyra like that, and neither had the one girl she’d dated. Lyra kind of loved it. Her aunt was so interested in her, genuinely interested.
“Uh huh yeah, such a surprise, and yeah defo intriguing. I’m kinda hard to terrify,” she said, with a cocky kind of grin, since the adrenaline rush from working at such heights was still hanging around in her body. “You might’ve noticed, hah. And he totally is, he’s like… I’ve never met any man quite that sweet before? And just, thoughtful? Careful? But I guess it all makes sense cuz of who he is, and I’m sorry, but I didn’t actually catch who you were? It was kinda hard to hear you through that glass up there…”