[Allison stumbles more for the performance of it than actually being jostled, and bumps Rose’s hip on her return back to her side. For a time she’s quiet, content: soaking in the sounds of the city waking itself up for the night, watching the street lights dance in Rose’s hair. She’s a little tipsy from earlier, not sloppily drunk but uninhibited enough to feel sentimental and not so guarded.]
I don’t?
[It’s an honest question. It had only just now occurred to her that Rose or anyone might be interested in the parts of her life that was not carrying the torch of her parents’ legacy, of breaking some record or goal in academics or in her career.]
Ah… well, you’ve met Mio.
[She still stopped by on the occasions that the two of them were not swamped with work. Usually it was Gaia who knew of her arrival before Allison even had an inkling of it.] We dated as teenagers for a while, but we’ve known one another since we were kids.
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I don’t?
[It’s an honest question. It had only just now occurred to her that Rose or anyone might be interested in the parts of her life that was not carrying the torch of her parents’ legacy, of breaking some record or goal in academics or in her career.]
Ah… well, you’ve met Mio.
[She still stopped by on the occasions that the two of them were not swamped with work. Usually it was Gaia who knew of her arrival before Allison even had an inkling of it.] We dated as teenagers for a while, but we’ve known one another since we were kids.