I'd really like to say that would be fine, and satisfying. But I've a feeling you'd call me on it and we both know me well enough to know that it isn't true anyway.
[Reeve shakes her head, partly in refusal, partly to clear if of the last of the champagne and the more self-indulgent emotions she's feeling at the moment.]

I can't argue with your ideas about this place-- I don't have the means to test their validity. I hope-- [she was just about to say something about things not being awkward, but it's clear that they won't be awkward for Sephiroth. She makes a wry sort of sigh, half laughing at herself.] oh, never mind that.

I-- it's probably none of my business, and I probably shouldn't ask, but is there someone you do feel a connection with? I assume it isn't someone here.