[Aria burrows gently into her fingers and Molly closes her hands over her in a subtle game they've played before. She does feel upset, for all the care Jimmy's putting into his word choices, and her tone is getting strained again for that reason, but it's not the same upset as before. It's not the panicky kind. It's just ... just the normal upset kind.]
[Or okay, that's not entirely true - there's something kind of defensive and stubborn about it too, along with an insistency that maybe shouldn't be there.]
And there are bad guys here, too. What if something happens?
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[Aria burrows gently into her fingers and Molly closes her hands over her in a subtle game they've played before. She does feel upset, for all the care Jimmy's putting into his word choices, and her tone is getting strained again for that reason, but it's not the same upset as before. It's not the panicky kind. It's just ... just the normal upset kind.]
[Or okay, that's not entirely true - there's something kind of defensive and stubborn about it too, along with an insistency that maybe shouldn't be there.]
And there are bad guys here, too. What if something happens?