Help Me Help You || Tamsin & Alice
Tamsin turned the small pin emblazoned with the Order emblem over in her hand as she walked toward Alice’s cottage. She’d fallen into a sort of habit since coming to Port Montrose -- when she needed to talk to someone, essentially think through a situation or problem out loud, she found herself gravitating toward Alice. There was an intelligent quietness about the other woman that made it easy to simply share things with her and she didn’t seem to mind Tamsin’s chattering. She also seemed to understand which questions were rhetorical and which Tamsin actually wanted answers to without her having to explain.
Even in a community like this where nearly everyone shared nearly everything, it was still considered polite to knock before entering the more private spaces like the cottages, but Tamsin was lost in thought trying to sort out who the pin belonged to and why she’d found it in the exact spot she knew she’d seen that silver eyed woman. It didn’t matter that she’d found no trace of her when she’d gone back with Peter to look, Tamsin knew she’d been there. She wandered up to the third cottage, opening the door and then pausing to knock as an afterthought while already halfway inside.
“Alice?” she called, “You home? Because I wanted to show you something and talk about it.”