[He was right, on multiple levels. She very much was the girl who hid her sorrows. Tried to make light of tragedy with smiles and denial. Almost as she had forgotten....]
[It had been less than a day, after all. Combined with the insanity of their current predicament, and a little shell-shock was excusable. If she kept referring to Giovanni like he were still waiting for her back home, she might even manage to convince herself he wasn't gone. That Fate would see the err of his ways and give him back.]
[Except the Robin had to go and look at her like that, nearly ruining the moment by remembering, and she had to turn away to make sure he didn't notice her smile falter.]
[When she turned back a moment later, her care-free expression had returned. Fully content with the pretense of simply thinking her dad was still blissfully unaware--at least, in the sense that her state of bliss resulted from his being unaware--that she had actually ditched her previously agreed upon Halloween plans to go joy riding with Artemis, and that was the biggest thing she would have to worry about. Alien sex district (or whatever) aside.]
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[He was right, on multiple levels. She very much was the girl who hid her sorrows. Tried to make light of tragedy with smiles and denial. Almost as she had forgotten....]
[It had been less than a day, after all. Combined with the insanity of their current predicament, and a little shell-shock was excusable. If she kept referring to Giovanni like he were still waiting for her back home, she might even manage to convince herself he wasn't gone. That Fate would see the err of his ways and give him back.]
[Except the Robin had to go and look at her like that, nearly ruining the moment by remembering, and she had to turn away to make sure he didn't notice her smile falter.]
[When she turned back a moment later, her care-free expression had returned. Fully content with the pretense of simply thinking her dad was still blissfully unaware--at least, in the sense that her state of bliss resulted from his being unaware--that she had actually ditched her previously agreed upon Halloween plans to go joy riding with Artemis, and that was the biggest thing she would have to worry about. Alien sex district (or whatever) aside.]
[Things were easier that way.]
Are all the districts this...friendly?