He wouldn't recognize "deescalation" if it bit him.
[Isaac is still mostly in friend-of-a-friend territory with Stacia, but they're starting to move toward actual friendship. He's teaching her spy stuff, at any rate. Which one might think would include deescalation, and yet!
She makes a face in answer to Elle's change of topic.]
I've poked at some of the early stuff, but I'm still deciding if I want to look at the things that haven't happened yet from my perspective. Why?
[She considers asking in a joking-not-joking way whether Elle is trying to keep something secret, but holds her tongue. There will be time for that later, if this gets weird in ways that require a back door out of them. For now, honest curiosity is just fine.]
locked to private
[Isaac is still mostly in friend-of-a-friend territory with Stacia, but they're starting to move toward actual friendship. He's teaching her spy stuff, at any rate. Which one might think would include deescalation, and yet!
She makes a face in answer to Elle's change of topic.]
I've poked at some of the early stuff, but I'm still deciding if I want to look at the things that haven't happened yet from my perspective. Why?
[She considers asking in a joking-not-joking way whether Elle is trying to keep something secret, but holds her tongue. There will be time for that later, if this gets weird in ways that require a back door out of them. For now, honest curiosity is just fine.]