[It's a start. Tetsuo stays just like he is for a while, but slowly his muscles relax just enough that his posture doesn't scream that he'll he'll bolt at the first sign of movement. All she did in the end was leave the plate there, and oddly enough, even as nervous as he is about her existing right this second, he doesn't suspect she'd have poisoned the food. People didn't tend to do that back in Neo Tokyo.
Still... his eyes don't leave her, nor do they lose their intensity. Every little thing she does or says is monitored and analyzed; he's paying more attention to her right now than he has to almost anyone before.
When one of his closest friends could...do that to him, why would he be safe with anyone around? Anyone he hasn't been in the head of... Anyone he doesn't know how to predict. Any one of them could do the same thing, and how would he know.
A lot of people probably want to hurt him, Maya. And right now?
All of them could. There's no such thing as safety.]
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Still... his eyes don't leave her, nor do they lose their intensity. Every little thing she does or says is monitored and analyzed; he's paying more attention to her right now than he has to almost anyone before.
When one of his closest friends could...do that to him, why would he be safe with anyone around? Anyone he hasn't been in the head of... Anyone he doesn't know how to predict. Any one of them could do the same thing, and how would he know.
A lot of people probably want to hurt him, Maya. And right now?
All of them could. There's no such thing as safety.]