She wanted to say No you don't. She wanted to look away from those stupidly blue eyes. "They have."

I will, she thought. Promises weren't shit, really. It was the doing that counted. She couldn't lie to herself. That moment with Bright in the precinct had scared her, and knowing that it wasn't a bad one didn't make that feeling go away. The fact that most of her fear was for him also didn't make it a simpler knot to untangle.

She picked up her own tea again, mostly just to do something with her hands. Mildly, she said, "And what you can get is pretty hot."