[It's just like him to come running to her when she asks in a tone like that. She'd do it for him, too, after all. But the way he does it makes Rio smile a little through the cloud of discontent that surrounds her.]
Hi...
[She gestures to the seat next to her on the couch, giving him what would normally be branded an expectant puppy-dog look that instead just seems more wounded than anything in these circumstances.]
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Hi...
[She gestures to the seat next to her on the couch, giving him what would normally be branded an expectant puppy-dog look that instead just seems more wounded than anything in these circumstances.]
Sit. I don't know how long this will take.