"...bad strange?" Ruby drifts back in the moonlight a little, though not more than a few inches. She can't help wishing he hadn't pulled away. Ruby doesn't know where that was heading, but the moment was intimate enough that she can't pretend they're just platonic friends in her head right now, not any more.

She doesn't know what to do with that. It's so soon after Orion, but she can't hang her whole life on one failed relationship, either.