[ While he's talking, she draws both of her feet up onto the bed, shoes and all, to fold her legs in front of her, twisting them into each other. Sorry about your sheets, Severus, but at least she hasn't stepped in anything recently. ]
Right, because saying no to someone automatically means there's something weirdly wrong with you.
[ She doesn't roll her eyes but her tone is saturated in enough disdain and sarcasm that it's effective without it. It's a kneejerk kind of resentment, and Claire has the instinct to ask who it was but resists that urge in the off-chance that he would tell her. That part of her is hardly buried, it bubbles to the surface enough as it is, and if she knew who it was there is no accounting for the number of dirty looks and stink eyes she would seek them out just to throw. ]
Or you have to qualify it. All these stipulations. And people can just make the decision for you. Lack of no doesn't mean yeah go ahead with whatever it is you want to think.
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Right, because saying no to someone automatically means there's something weirdly wrong with you.
[ She doesn't roll her eyes but her tone is saturated in enough disdain and sarcasm that it's effective without it. It's a kneejerk kind of resentment, and Claire has the instinct to ask who it was but resists that urge in the off-chance that he would tell her. That part of her is hardly buried, it bubbles to the surface enough as it is, and if she knew who it was there is no accounting for the number of dirty looks and stink eyes she would seek them out just to throw. ]
Or you have to qualify it. All these stipulations. And people can just make the decision for you. Lack of no doesn't mean yeah go ahead with whatever it is you want to think.