She needed to get up, she knew. Needed to get off him, he wasn't a pillow, for God's sake. But she'd missed this. Of having someone properly close. Even if it wasn't Dudley, or Kat, or any of the others. It was weakness to want to be held, she knew that.

But she was curious then. If he had no feelings... "... if you do not care for anyone, why should I believe any of what you say to comfort me now? If you do not have a heart, you cannot understand this burden even slightly, because it is a burden of the heart. How am I supposed to trust you, Lavi?"

Elizabeth peered up at him, frowning slightly.