[It's a new thing for her, too. These little things, the quiet reaching out, the absence of the need to push him away. She waits by the front door, her eyes scanning the assigned housing with a slight tug of disapproval.]
It's not Lux.
[Her fingers curl reflexively against the cuff of the jacket he put around her and she closes her eyes to swallow down her unease. It would pass. It would.]
How could it be?
[It's not easy, nothing about being in this place is easy. Every new thing she learns just makes her muscles knot. Housing for newcomers, lots of it, the information, the strange drifting dissonance between realities atop knowing her own world had supernatural elements.
She was going to have to deal with it. But not now. Right now, Point B to Point C. Chloe could quite suppress the slight shudder that arrowed down her spine. Breathe in, breathe out. Point B to Point C.
Just like procedure.
Lucifer hated rules but her own were keeping her sane, for the moment.]
Action
It's not Lux.
[Her fingers curl reflexively against the cuff of the jacket he put around her and she closes her eyes to swallow down her unease. It would pass. It would.]
How could it be?
[It's not easy, nothing about being in this place is easy. Every new thing she learns just makes her muscles knot. Housing for newcomers, lots of it, the information, the strange drifting dissonance between realities atop knowing her own world had supernatural elements.
She was going to have to deal with it. But not now. Right now, Point B to Point C. Chloe could quite suppress the slight shudder that arrowed down her spine. Breathe in, breathe out. Point B to Point C.
Just like procedure.
Lucifer hated rules but her own were keeping her sane, for the moment.]