Wasn't that the way of it? Monsters were real, (she was becoming one or that was the fear), but there was a darkness in people. A need to control, to ruin. Perhaps rare, perhaps not as rare as one might think. Hatred, it was such a powerful tool. Just like fear. Though that wasn't something she really wanted to think about. So instead she had simply nodded because what could be said. The KGB was bad enough as it were. Though Clara had seen those officers. While some were more aggressive, they still believed and were people as well. That was what was so sad about it all. There was no strictly right and strictly wrong.
Still, life worked out and here they were.
The question wasn't one Clara wanted to answer though. No. In fact, she most decidedly did not want to answer the question. Because he wouldn't know what a Dalek was. He wouldn't understand. And she didn't want to explain it. She didn't want to think about it. So she did the one thing that made sense... Spinning on heel away from the door, Clara kissed Anatoly.
Yet in that moment, it was as if something crackled in the back of her mind and Clara suddenly realised what she had just done. And that she most certainly was not acting like herself. So she broke the kiss, eyes wide and hands over her face as she backed up.
"I'm sorry. That wasn't me. I mean it was, but it wasn't." How was she supposed to know this would set off warning bells for the psychologist? "I'm not normally that forward, in fact I'm rarely that forward. And I'm in no place to even think about such things, even without the complicated things that make no sense."
Wishing to just disappear, Clara groaned as she just sunk down to the ground.
"What is happening to me?!"
The question was more to herself, but still audible. Because it was one thing thing slip up and call Rory 'Nina', and to be a bit more flirtatious with Troy and call him Chinboy. It was something else entirely to be as forward as she'd been with Anatoly and to kiss him. Yes, she'd been avoiding answering a question, but even still... No. Something was happening to her and she was beginning to become scared of what that meant.