Noctisardor Bypass curled up, nose to toes

She rolled a shoulder in a shrug. It is my name after all. I'm not in a rush to jump back into having a proper mate again. I had known Terance over a year before I chose him. If that's what you want, then that's a lot of familiarity to catch up on. It was said with a bit of a smirk. And had she known what happened to Terance, it certainly wouldn't be said so lightly (for her). Pike's return would mark a fairly significant change in her attitude for the short term depending on how well she buried it, but that was still in the future from here.

But she peered at him then with curiosity, Does it mean that you've had more thoughts about what you want if it all goes well? Because surely something had to have brought it up in the first place. Kaertok didn't strike her as the sort of fussy worrier that Terance had been at times. But he could prove her wrong. She'd rather ask than guess anyway.