The fact that he doesn't say anything the whole time they're in the car - her heart sinks down somewhere around her stomach, and just keeps staring down at her hands. Being alone is her worst nightmare; being trapped by herself and knowing she's going to die, oddly enough, is something that's happened more than once and she knows it's the worst feeling in the world.
People doing things out of sheer obligation, that's definitely up there on the list, though. Kind people who know your family, classmates, the people who looked for you when you fell into that basement-- that's what she's seen and lived with, and it's disheartening. If they'd been walking, Raleigh would have decided to go back to the boarding house after all - say that she's tired, thank him, make her excuses - but they're in a car and there's nowhere she can go and so both of them sit in silence.
The walk - not far, but far enough - is too much right now for her to leave from his house. She knows it; if there's one thing she's experienced with, it's her limits when she's injured, and while she breaks those limits regularly she's still aware of them.
"Thank you," is the first thing she says when he says she's welcome to anything. "I appreciate it, seriously." She needs to not be alone, she needs to sit down, and she's trying to just seem like the last two days haven't been a horrible nightmare. She draws up short, though, when he says that she can just... stay. It doesn't sit the same with obligation, unless he doesn't mean stay, stay, but he's offering things from her room, and it doesn't make sense.
"I... sorry, you just mean the afternoon, right?" She has to ask, because- because. They can pass it off as her being a little out of it since she's got pain medication in her hoodie, since she's taken it even though it's not doing a lot. She's still on her crutches, looking up at him like she's not even quite sure what to do with herself, but she's just... confused. Completely confused about this whole thing.
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People doing things out of sheer obligation, that's definitely up there on the list, though. Kind people who know your family, classmates, the people who looked for you when you fell into that basement-- that's what she's seen and lived with, and it's disheartening. If they'd been walking, Raleigh would have decided to go back to the boarding house after all - say that she's tired, thank him, make her excuses - but they're in a car and there's nowhere she can go and so both of them sit in silence.
The walk - not far, but far enough - is too much right now for her to leave from his house. She knows it; if there's one thing she's experienced with, it's her limits when she's injured, and while she breaks those limits regularly she's still aware of them.
"Thank you," is the first thing she says when he says she's welcome to anything. "I appreciate it, seriously." She needs to not be alone, she needs to sit down, and she's trying to just seem like the last two days haven't been a horrible nightmare. She draws up short, though, when he says that she can just... stay. It doesn't sit the same with obligation, unless he doesn't mean stay, stay, but he's offering things from her room, and it doesn't make sense.
"I... sorry, you just mean the afternoon, right?" She has to ask, because- because. They can pass it off as her being a little out of it since she's got pain medication in her hoodie, since she's taken it even though it's not doing a lot. She's still on her crutches, looking up at him like she's not even quite sure what to do with herself, but she's just... confused. Completely confused about this whole thing.