Gabriela
"Well, that went better than expected."
Aaron throws me an amused look over his shoulder. "Were you expecting something less?"
Do I want to admit to him that I was ready for him to be wrong about his own elders, and that they wouldn't be as welcoming as he'd suspected them to be? No matter how I frame it, it would come across as me doubting him.
But I had been pleasantly surprised by all of their really mild reactions to me. With us being in such close proximity to each other, all of the elders had to know that I was pregnant by now, if Aaron hadn't already informed them ahead of time.
And yet instead of them casting me away like I'd been tainted, they simply asked a few questions before shooing Aaron and I along for the day.
"I wouldn't say 'less,' so much as...I don't know
