May 10
Annette ... ( Ahem ) I was told it's Mother's Day.
[ 🧪 , @golgctha . ]
"Were you now?"
Her brow raises, but she doesn't lift from her position 'gainst microscope -- not immediately. Whatever's in the petri dish keeps her attention far more than any up - and - coming domestic dispute will, but she ultimately relinquishes it to him all the same.
"I don't have the luxury of abandoning ship," she starts in the tone she typically takes with him; tired, expectant of an argument ( ... ) but it dissolves into something more tolerant, softer, in her next statement, "but... it's ( ... ) sweet, of you to point it out, William."