Bramblepoint the devil's right there in the details

She fools herself into believing she sees recognition in him, and a shiver takes over her.  She almost makes to stand, but realizes at the last second she doesn't want him to run away.  She slinks back down (as she'd never risen above a crouch,) and when he speaks again the tears spill over.

Screech, she says, overcome with some indeciperhable feeling.  I could've loved you, once.

Friends.  Yes, friends.  Later, she might explain to him that he can't ever come back to the Plateau, that he has to live out his poor sorry pitiful life in the dark woods and never come out.  Never come this far close to Moonspear again, because Llewellyn would kill him, and she could not stop him.

Not now.  Not now.