Sorry I was just really busy thinking about how Gideon spent her entire brief life lusting after women in magazines because the only ones around her were elderly and/or treated her like garbage her entire life, only to enter a teenage death game where she was immediately overwhelmed into silence by the presence of real human women she was attracted to, some of whom it actually turns out were attracted to her in return, only because of everything going on and her own inexperience she barely spoke to them let alone touched them– even seeing the girl she grew up alongside without face paint discomfited her– and then died (for that girl!) a virgin at eighteen. But it’s fine because she came back for a minute, and spent most of that time learning that her mother didn’t love her and “confirming” that the girl she died for also didn’t love her, featuring a jilted asshole who then became her only friend solely on the basis of them “both” having unrequited feelings for said girl, leading up to half a year of imperialism for the sake of the father she never knew, looking in vain for the love of her life, only to then be kissed by someone who looks just like her. So is it any surprise that she “did not respond;” that she didn’t know how to kiss her back? Is it any surprise that she trembled? The expression on the corpse’s face could not have been more rigid with shock and disbelief– The most shock and disbelief Gideon had ever felt was at the idea that a girl she loved could love her back, in any physical way. Except it wasn’t her, actually, so Gideon just had to sit with this, alone, because not a single person around her cared about anything she might be feeling, as per usual, only solidifying the fact of her aloneness. But, yeah, please repeat whatever it is you just said to me I’m sure it’s just as important.