[Since she's still got his hand, she strokes the back of it with her thumb again. Because Julian has very nice hands. She's trying not to be distracted by that fact, really.

Wrath still cares about North enough that she wants to defend him. Because as far as her understanding goes, she did screw everything up there.]

Well, the selfish thing was more that he was having a super bad day, and then York wanted to do a shot and I was dumb and said yes, and then it did something really weird with my chems and... it's kind of a long and stupid story. I really should have been more thoughtful.

[But the fact that Julian doesn't think there's something wrong with polyamory? Makes her feel a lot better. The only other person she'd ever heard that from was Foxtrot, and that was Foxtrot.]

I'd really like that. As long as you'll be okay. [Because she is serious about not wanting to hurt him.]