in this world it's hard to get it right.

Elwood looked confused, and for a brief moment of wild paranoia, her heart plummeted into her stomach as she determined that he was about to take back what he'd said because she was mentally disturbed. But then something came across his face, and finally he responded to her with a question. He didn't understand what she was trying to say. Well.. that made sense. It had been extremely random given the moment.

"I mean.. the moth. I made it up," she explained nervously, "I just... I just punched you." I should let it be known at this point that she was only vaguely aware that she was speaking at all. Her mind was too busy babbling he loves me over and over again to really pay attention to what the rest of her was doing. ".....'cause.. you looked at me..." Have I ever mentioned how painstakingly difficult it is to write Fin's dialogue when she's not making jokes?

"But.. I looked at you too," she said, settling her chocolate eyes upon his honeybee yellow, almost pleading with him to understand, to help her somehow. She was like an infant trying to say "mama" for the first time. She knew the words, knew what they meant, knew she wanted to say them. But how to move her mouth to make it happen? "I looked at you too," Fin repeated, softer this time. She was so close. Just replace a few words with the right ones and she had it!