But this time Carol didn't flinch away. She'd grown a spine over the last several months. And Daryl Dixon didn't scare her in the least. She knew him too well to think he'd ever hurt her, or abandon her. She just arched her other eyebrow in response. "I guess I'll find out," she said, no hint of kidding as she shrugged.
"And of course you don't need my permission. But considering we're friends," family, really, but she knew he didn't care for that word, "a head's up would have been a nice courtesy."