Neverwinter Forest [m] Places far away and we're not you and me, but

It did not feel safe, exactly, to remain propped up on an elbow when she was working herself into a tear. But with that leg, how much damage could she really do before he could pull himself away? (It did not occur to him that he should be planning to retaliate, if she should attack him. It did not occur to him that he could.)

"What we want is rarely what we get," he replied. It was the closest he'd come to snapping at her, though his tone was still even, if not rather crisp. "I'm not complaining. I'm just tellin' you, because I don't know what you want."

To get better, presumably. Beyond that? Catamaran had tried not to guess. She was playing games with him — and that was her right, and he didn't fault her for it. But he'd engaged her to his limit, and asking her directly what her rules and her goals were was quite beyond him.