"Oh, no, I would absolutely hate it," she agrees, though it's only halfway true. Getting people to open up is one thing, responding with vulnerability of her own is the horrible part. "With most people. You're the exception, because I actually like you."
"I guess I'm glad you like me, then. I don't, um. I don't think I would've stopped planning on dying if you hadn't wanted me to," he admits, a little awkwardly, looking down at his hands in his lap. "Wen Ning tried to say the same thing but he didn't say it as well." And Ashton failed utterly at it.
"I'm glad too," she says quietly, and loops an arm around his shoulders to give him a sideways hug. "You know I'm still going to nag you to get out of here once you have your deal, right?"
He leans into it, putting his around her shoulders, back. It's okay. She's not mad and he's going to fix his magic or his parents or both, and he's allowed to have hugs sometimes without looking like a baby. "Yeah, well, maybe I'll stay for a second deal. I'd say I'd make a deal for you, but I'm pretty sure the Admiral would call that cheating."
"That probably is the first loophole he closed," Yelena agrees. "He is an incomprehensible godlike alien who I don't think actually sees us as people, or at least not the inmates, but he would have to be very stupid to leave that one open."
She doesn't, unlike a number of passengers, think it's a matter of can't at all.
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She doesn't, unlike a number of passengers, think it's a matter of can't at all.