Poor Adam must have felt truly under the microscope because, of course, Allegra was staring at him with merciless interest behind her eyes. Once again she was managing to resemble some animated forest creature, her large eyes filled with hesitant fascination as Adam decided to start with the kiss. She nodded, wondering vaguely if he intended on her defending herself once again, but soon found herself pleasantly surprised as Adam chose to elaborate. Well, sort of. She listened with furrowing brows as Adam sort of explained what had been going on, his eyes soon abandoning her own for the moving pictures box.

It was difficult to follow along. He didn’t…not believe her about the kiss? What did that mean? Allegra shook her head, completely behind but tentative to pop this little bubble of sudden communication that didn’t involve yelling. He was apologizing but she still didn’t quite understand what exactly he was apologizing for. She knew he had things he should have been sorry about, but he seemed to be throwing out his remorse left and right and she wasn’t quite sure where to assign it.

“Hold on,” Allegra started, clearly still trying to process all of this. “What…” She stared at the side of his expression as he looked away from her, suddenly feeling a spark of disdain at the attention the amount of attention the moving pictures box was getting. She tried to ignore it. “What do you mean — a reason to walk away?”