Some time later...

[realmrsreynolds]

Sallie was up earlier than usual this morning, more out of some ague of restlessness rather than actual concern or unease. The kitchens seemed like a good place to spend the morning - she hasn't made bread in a while, and it'll be nice to get her hands in something a little less complicated than her thoughts have been of late.

If you stop by around lunch, there'll be whole grain loafs out of the oven.

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[mnt_mike]

He doesn't respond, because he's too busy thinking.
Mike opens his mouth to speak, but at the last second closes it to reconsider his words.

"You were thinking of New York." He waves his hand, as if to erase what he's said in lieu of a different starting point. "The other day. When we were talking. It was you and Splinter in New York."

[realmrsreynolds]

"Of course."

As if it were a perfectly normal assumption. Why wouldn't Sallie be thinking about she and Splinter in New York (again)?

"We'd been talking about getting hitched me 'n him, so it makes sense my head would go in the direction of me and him in the world somewhere, right?"

[mnt_mike]

"But...New York."

He repeats it because he doesn't quite yet understand.

[realmrsreynolds]

Neither does Sallie, apparently.

"If I marry someone, Mike, it means I'd go where they'd want to be."

[mnt_mike]

That.

Well it's clear....that he hadn't considered that.

"You'd really leave Shadow?"

[realmrsreynolds]

"Of course."

Not easily, not without a care in the 'verse, but...Splinter's people. Shadow's not.

[mnt_mike]

"Splinter's people."

If Mike didn't already love her and think the world of her, he would so just for that alone. As it stands, he can't help himself but crossing the room, and gathering her up in a hug.

[realmrsreynolds]

"Oof! Mike -- "

It's always lovely, feeling a hug physically and the intention from it inside the other person's mind. It's a thing that happens to Sallie more often than not anymore, with Mike more than most.

Even still: "How are you surprised by any o' that?"

[mnt_mike]

"Oh I'm not," he says not letting her out of the hug just yet. "But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it every time just the same."

[realmrsreynolds]

I'm alright with that then.





After a possibly awkward amount of time passes: Do you think any o' this heartfelt palaver should actually be had with your ba?

[mnt_mike]

"Eventually," he says with a happy sigh, as he rests chin upon her shoulder.