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[ Rion studies him, even as Dave stares rather fixedly at his feet or the floor or something that is definitely not her. It feels a little too arrogant to even say that she thinks she understands, or that she knows how hard it is to just tell someone that you're not okay, that you're messing things up and you're only just starting to realize that you can't even fix your own problems without help.

But that's just her own experience talking. She has no clue what Dave was thinking when he was out there, but she'd like to think she at least knows him well enough by now to also know that his reason for going out there had nothing to do with "dicking around like a jackass".

So, while she sighs quietly, she also reaches out to wrap both of her arms around his shoulders and pull him into a side-hug. ]

Remind me to tell you about the time I dragged an entire hospital into a dungeon-- sometime. Later.

But you didn't drag me into anything. That was my choice, Dave. And we both made it out of there okay, so...

[ So. She forgives him. ]