( She doesn't try to parse his expression. What's the point? It's confusing, this whole situation is confusing, and she's hungry. It's easier to focus on the food and, probably for the first time, also just ask for more things than she needs, given that's not really been a luxury since...
... Since.
Annie completes her food-carrying balancing act with a sideways hook of her foot around the chair's leg, hauling it out so she can sit and start carefully divesting foodstuffs to the table's surface. She's spared from the wonders of Reiner's marriage hopes for the time being, and instead answers after biting into one of the still hot skewers: )
Yes. Found six pies on the table in the one I was assigned.
( ... Nothing else, but she doesn't really know that people found actual Things Of Use in their apartments. She just found excessive meat pies. )
... Did you want one?
( Asked as she continues eating, only slightly better in her table manners today than she was in her recent past. She's not making a mess, for what that's worth. )
is he still sure he missed her
... Since.
Annie completes her food-carrying balancing act with a sideways hook of her foot around the chair's leg, hauling it out so she can sit and start carefully divesting foodstuffs to the table's surface. She's spared from the wonders of Reiner's marriage hopes for the time being, and instead answers after biting into one of the still hot skewers: )
Yes. Found six pies on the table in the one I was assigned.
( ... Nothing else, but she doesn't really know that people found actual Things Of Use in their apartments. She just found excessive meat pies. )
... Did you want one?
( Asked as she continues eating, only slightly better in her table manners today than she was in her recent past. She's not making a mess, for what that's worth. )