Somehow it actually made Laura feel better that Torunn was so clearly as ambivalent about the whole thing as she was trying not to be. It wasn't a nice feeling, that so many people were suddenly getting family here and she couldn't just be uncomplicatedly happy for them, and it was definitely one she didn't know what to do with, but the idea that Torunn might feel even a tiny bit of the same thing in reverse made the whole thing seem more... normal. Like she wasn't just irredeemably bad for it.
"A few months, I guess. It would have been in August." Because they were already together before her birthday when he'd given her the red glass dagger pendant that she pretty much always wore now, often pairing it with two or even three others at once that she cycled through out of her growing collection.