Evaline only briefly looked up when James quickly got up on his feet to kneel next to her, and she had almost no time to react as he reached over and gently pulled her shoulders towards him into a hug.
For a second, she was shocked that he did this. She fully expected him to let the topic go, and then she'd call it a night and sleep everything off. But he decided to either ignore her words and gave her a pity hug anyways, or he actually truly wanted to give her a hug because he wanted to. She wasn't sure which one was true, but she didn't have time to dwell on it.
Slowly, Evaline reached her arms around James's back to gently complete the embrace. With her arms wrapped around the back of his shoulders, she let herself bury her head in his chest, facing away from him so that he couldn't see her face.
Similar to the last hug from the night under the stars after she confessed she had seen him die, she felt an explosion of emotions swirl in her chest.
Because this time, it was different. She didn't allow herself to feel it.
Instead, the sadness still crept in the hollow space of her heart, but it was numbed. Numbed by his touch.
And that was good enough.
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