Baby steps, although this next part feels less like a baby step and more like a full step that she hesitates giving an answer when her heart leaps into her throat, and she forgets how to breathe for a moment. Slowly, he's getting there, but what will happen if it all comes back at once...?
She pauses in her rinsing of the dog, turning the tap off partway through, much to the pup's dismay as it whines at her to finish, but Tifa focuses all of her attention on him now, turning slowly to face and keep an eye on him in case this is what does it.]
Not any of the dogs here... [she starts carefully.] But you told me about one from home, a long time ago.
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Baby steps, although this next part feels less like a baby step and more like a full step that she hesitates giving an answer when her heart leaps into her throat, and she forgets how to breathe for a moment. Slowly, he's getting there, but what will happen if it all comes back at once...?
She pauses in her rinsing of the dog, turning the tap off partway through, much to the pup's dismay as it whines at her to finish, but Tifa focuses all of her attention on him now, turning slowly to face and keep an eye on him in case this is what does it.]
Not any of the dogs here... [she starts carefully.] But you told me about one from home, a long time ago.
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Vitty...?