"You were going to 'find some water'," said Selphira. Not a question.
"Yes..."
"And mostly to think as always."
"Also yes..."
Selphira considered that for a moment.
Then she did something Larissa hadn't expected: instead of continuing past her toward Ren's room, she stopped in the corridor with the posture of someone who had recalculated their destination and decided that here was sufficient.
"I was going to find Luna," she said. "I need to speak with her about something that affects her directly and that she isn't going to want to hear." A pause. "But you're here first."
Larissa didn't respond immediately.
"This is not an accident," she said finally. "The way you said that."
"No." Selphira didn't elaborate where elaboration wasn't needed, she was the kind of person who let silence do the work when silence was more efficient than words.
