Objectively, she knew how humans tended to mourn. She's drawing on that knowledge now. She knew they tended to cry, (Amber had cried, the first Contractor in the world had cried- what did it mean?), so she'd seen to it she looked as if she had. She knew they tended to withdraw, and that wasn't hard at all.
As to what she really felt, if she were really in mourning... she wasn't going to think about it.
And he just. Reached out and took a messy, not quite solid slice of the food she held out to him, stuffed it in his mouth...
... Was he making some sort of point?]
... that's good.
[She still kept holding the plate out as if expecting him to take the rest.]
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Objectively, she knew how humans tended to mourn. She's drawing on that knowledge now. She knew they tended to cry, (Amber had cried, the first Contractor in the world had cried- what did it mean?), so she'd seen to it she looked as if she had. She knew they tended to withdraw, and that wasn't hard at all.
As to what she really felt, if she were really in mourning... she wasn't going to think about it.
And he just. Reached out and took a messy, not quite solid slice of the food she held out to him, stuffed it in his mouth...
... Was he making some sort of point?]
... that's good.
[She still kept holding the plate out as if expecting him to take the rest.]