[ Please, that would require logical thinking on Rose's part. Of which everyone knows she is incapable. ]

I mean. I dunno. We've kind of gone so far without really... being around each other when we're seeing other people, so. [ Ah. The truth. Rose doesn't want to confine or be confined, but... actually having to face that Vanyel is with someone else seems to bother her. A little. Maybe.

(A lot, actually. Which is definitely, absolutely something they should talk about.) ]

We don't have to live together, [ she starts, trying to... talk herself out of it... ] I can be close, at least. That'd be fine.