[The hairs on the back of her neck prickled before Philip even replied. What Evelyn had been expecting was perhaps a reassuring sentiment, or another tangent of conversation about adventures, or even a brief story about Philip himself.
What she got was something else entirely.]
...excuse me?
[She bristles immediately, because...because this is a sore enough subject in her own time period, and he's reassured her before that things have changed by the time the twenty-first century begins. Coffee clenched in her hands, shoulders tensed, she wishes to high Heaven and back she could actually see his face right now.
Evie expects this kind of response from someone like the "emperor", or in a jesting manner from her brother, but not from Philip.]
no subject
What she got was something else entirely.]
...excuse me?
[She bristles immediately, because...because this is a sore enough subject in her own time period, and he's reassured her before that things have changed by the time the twenty-first century begins. Coffee clenched in her hands, shoulders tensed, she wishes to high Heaven and back she could actually see his face right now.
Evie expects this kind of response from someone like the "emperor", or in a jesting manner from her brother, but not from Philip.]
I'm ridiculous?