Re: Arcade: Gwen & Perry
She wasn't surprised when he nudged the money away. She wasn't testing him, because she wasn't machinating in that way, but she was perpetually curious about her interpretation of data. What she knew about him (and what she felt) told her that he wouldn't think it was fair to take all the elephants in the crane machine, especially not using his cellular mutation to his advantage. "I guess fairness might be more important than liberating elephants," she said, deliberately exaggerating her teasing consideration on the matter. "We could always give the $2.50 to other liberators. Convert them to our cause." Now she was babbling, because his hand was warmer than she'd expected. Or maybe it was colder than she'd expected. Um. She totally stared when he crouched down on his haunches, and the stance was visually familiar (in a way she totally couldn't blame on watching youtube clips of him). She was still staring when he straightened, and she followed the movement in an instinctive rote way, and not because she was actually focused on what she was doing. She took the elephant in the same manner, and she hugged it to her stomach in a motion that was all unthinking girl. "Um. Okay. Thank you." Her toe scuffed the carpet. "Aunt May can have visitation rights, if she wants."
Gwen wasn't particularly concerned with being overheard. For all her recent escapades (and all her acquired knowledge), she was still kind of trusting. She didn't understand his approach immediately, but she caught up by the time he stopped talking. "Oh." Which was a whisper of enlightenment. Right. The reason he'd met her was to talk about the facility. Right.
She began to launch into her explanation about the facility and the League and Tethys, but a group happened to be exiting the Laser Tag room at that particular moment, and Gwen couldn't think of a better place to have this conversation (and she kind of wanted to see what it looked like inside). She stuffed her pink elephant in her messenger bag, the trunk hanging out defiantly, and she grabbed Perry's hand unthinkingly. "It'll be easier to talk in there." She didn't specify where there was. She just tugged on his fingers and pulled out her pocketed money, readying the $2.00 for the attendant.