Not pointedly. Just in the natural way his eyes moved to things that mattered.
"How are you feeling," he said. "The real version."
"Large," I said. "In a way that's going to keep escalating." I looked at Ashveil below us. "Also very well, which I wasn't expecting to be able to say at the same time." I paused. "And a little frightened. In a specific way that I think is just correct information rather than a problem."
"What's it about."
I thought about it honestly.
"The part where there's a person," I said. "An actual, separate, complete person arriving. Someone who's going to be in this world and have a whole experience of it and I'm going to be responsible for making sure the experience starts as well as possible." I looked at him. "I keep thinking about all the ways love can go wrong
