She smothers a laugh into the pillow, delivers a half-hearted push to his shin with her foot and leaves it there, fitting it to the warmth of his skin. There is room here to ask him the same and not too long ago she would have, would not have let herself lie in a bed with anybody she liked without having said, but there is something about the Gallows and Riftwatch — Cedric — that makes her feel both safe and in turn, safer. Been a long time since she felt that way.

Slowly she turns her head to him. With soft sincerity, a small smile, "Thank you. I think I do. I didn't before I got here, but... it's different now."

Time has passed and things that should have happened have not. But she doesn't reassure him that it isn't hard to be here.

Propping herself onto an elbow leaves one arm free; Gela runs her hand over his hip. "You don't have to worry about me. I'm so much better now I'm here."