[ It's as she thought, then. After all, she figured, such a storybook-like demeanor can only come from someone whose time is long pastβ although his comment that they are from different realms serves to remind her that that is not necessarily true, either. Hasn't she herself met people whose now seems to her to be long ago?
It's unbelievably confusing.
He, however, seems patient to her mind at least, and she reaches to take the offered arm, her shyness maybe not as clear as usual what with the stiffness of her movements, but there nonetheless. She feels in part like she ought to match his formality... but while she's unfailingly polite, her social graces are nowhere near on par with his, it seems. ]
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It's unbelievably confusing.
He, however, seems patient to her mind at least, and she reaches to take the offered arm, her shyness maybe not as clear as usual what with the stiffness of her movements, but there nonetheless. She feels in part like she ought to match his formality... but while she's unfailingly polite, her social graces are nowhere near on par with his, it seems. ]
I'd, um. I'd be honored...!