Sam is committing to a balancing act here, where he’s needing to be just far enough on the ‘adult’ aside of the line to have authority in the situation, and far enough away from it that it doesn’t land him with her hackles up, back against the wall, and ready to disappear or strike either one.
Somehow, he’s doing it. He’s hit that strangely perfect mix of older and protective with a genuine demeanor that can’t be ignored. Despite how little he knows her, he cares, and she see it etched across the concern in his eyes, the small smile he hands her in effort to prove his trustability.
It works.
That smile of his earns him one of her own and she swings her legs over the edge of the sill, pushing herself into the room and going to sit next to him. She makes sure she’s making eye contact with him before she says, “Thank you,” the words are reverent and ring through the room like a heavy token laid at his feet— there is a gravity to the idea of her saying so at all. “…I won’t forget the chance you took, are taking, on me.”
Sam’s reaction + Inej yeets out the window again to end?
Somehow, he’s doing it. He’s hit that strangely perfect mix of older and protective with a genuine demeanor that can’t be ignored. Despite how little he knows her, he cares, and she see it etched across the concern in his eyes, the small smile he hands her in effort to prove his trustability.
It works.
That smile of his earns him one of her own and she swings her legs over the edge of the sill, pushing herself into the room and going to sit next to him. She makes sure she’s making eye contact with him before she says, “Thank you,” the words are reverent and ring through the room like a heavy token laid at his feet— there is a gravity to the idea of her saying so at all. “…I won’t forget the chance you took, are taking, on me.”