[this is so peaceful right now, even as kainé asks a question that anna isn't sure she knows the answer to. she looks at her girlfriend's face, studies it and lets its inherent warmth fill her to her core. if her heart beat, it would be beating faster.]

I don't know if she does... that's one thing I want to ask her, too. I tell her about you, but she can't talk back to me. I don't know if she ever could, if that's ever... how it worked. [for someone who survived retrospec, she knows so little about its actual mechanics. about whether souls are meant to talk with each other, or if she's just romanticizing things. maybe one day, one day soon, she'll find a way to resonate again.]

But if we're close enough for us to end up entwined in the first place, then I think I have a couple ideas of what she thinks about you. [another smile. she closes her eye, too, trying to exist in the moment with kainé. her lips don't move much.] I think she thinks you're a good person, who's better than someone like her deserves, but who's still the kind of person who makes her want to try harder every day to be someone better.