It was there. A flicker of longing. He wasn’t quite sure what it meant, so he waited. Theon was too impatient for this part of her, and to be fair, sometimes she needed that. Sometimes she did need someone to take care of her. Sometimes she needed to not think, to be out of her head and simply told what to do. No decisions to agonize over. But she also needed someone to simply trust she could do things on her own.
