im thinking abt gideon just sitting in the lab 2/response viewing room twiddling her thumbs waiting for harrow to regain consciousness after collapsing from exhaustion.

i think this was a very fragile and important and transitional phase in their relationship – in contrast to before (where harrow passed out inside a bone cocoon, alone, and tried to deny her weakness and refuse any and all help when discovered) harrow let exausted herself be totally at gideon’s mercy. she didnt set up any wards, she didnt make a bone construct, she basically trusted that gideon wouldnt do anything to fuck w her while she was unconscious. she didn’t reject gideon’s presence, but she wasn’t yet at the point where she could ask for help.

gideon on the other hand had grown to the point where she didnt just up and leave harrow there alone, despite knowing that harrow wasnt in any danger. and she didnt just carry harrow out like before because she 1) knew harrow was just tired and gideon trusted that she just needed a lie down + 2) gideon knew that harrow would probably not want that? so she was like, trying to respect harrow’s style of necromantic recovery (being unconscious on the floor). also holding her necromancer in her strong arms is like a whole THING and gideon’s feelings are complicated