I wouldn't force you like that. Granted, I'm not used to really having Command Seals to waste, but I... do respect you enough to listen when you ask for space. You have your own life here. It's unreasonable to just expect you to be at my side every time I turn my head or get worked up.

[She sounds so calm. So logical, so gently rational. If it weren't for the faintest tinge of loneliness pervasively coloring her mana, she might have even gotten away with the half-truth. It's unreasonable, yes, but she did miss him. But, after all the damage she had committed herself to inflicting on him, a week away was a relatively small price.]

...thanks, I think.