'Anywhere' clearly hadn't been the prompt she was looking for. It was written all over her body, this time more in her shoulders than her face. Shino could have mapped yet another tiny story in their tension and tremor, as what was clearly a downward spiral of thoughts inched them up in tiny, nearly invisible increments. Perhaps he shouldn't offer to take people to tea to discuss their feelings if he was clearly not very good at helping them open up. Then again, it wasn't like Sakura had no idea what sort of person he was; it would probably work itself out quickly enough how he could be most helpful.
Someone actually listening, he knew from personal experience, could be worth all the good advice in the world.
As the young woman finally stilled the little signs of tension, apparently coming to a conclusion about the best place to begin speaking, Shino bumped his glasses absently into place with a little nudge and settled in to watch her quietly. Her words were... certainly unexpected, although this registered only faintly on his own features. It was much more about keeping his energy forward, his dark eyes zeroed in on her, than about big emotional displays at the strange news.
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