[ He looks over at her at that small sigh, the way her slender shoulders rise and fall, like she's carrying some weight she doesn't know how to put down. All of this is... it's so unexpected to him, to talk about just now, but she must have been mulling it over for a while. It's been a long time now since that sunset at the harbor, the last time either of them saw Sophie.
He watches her think, and decide, and look over at him, and the deliberate way she makes her smile warm and bright, and thinks: how could he have ever been this lucky, so lucky, to have found her?
Gustave smiles back, leans to nudge his shoulder against hers — carefully, seeing as they're still only inches away from a long fall to a quick death. ]
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He watches her think, and decide, and look over at him, and the deliberate way she makes her smile warm and bright, and thinks: how could he have ever been this lucky, so lucky, to have found her?
Gustave smiles back, leans to nudge his shoulder against hers — carefully, seeing as they're still only inches away from a long fall to a quick death. ]
Thanks.
It's easy when you have the best daughter.